Excellent interview, Lex! Your sensible warning at the start and the dynamic + sensibly specific line of enquiry was very enjoyable and enlightening. As always, you held up your end of the deal. Paul on the other hand... It's a bit disappointing to see someone who's held up as a shining beacon of academic policy analysis and macro-economic studies seem so unfortunately out of touch with the details underlying pace of technological development in specific disciplines of STEM, leading to an opaque and mud-tinted nearsightedness. I'm also flabbergasted by the constant glossing over/dismissal of various aggregate IQ measurements and their impact on the favorable development of the Scandinavian "model" economies by Paul and his peers. It seems imporbale that a scientifically-minded and highly decorated scientist of any discipline can't connect the dots between any collective's median (and thus, favorably outlying) Wechsler diagnostic scores and their relative value-add service/manufacturing potency. Given the evidence supporting the validity of that causal correlation it seems so disingenuous for people like Krugman to hold up these Scandinavian countries as having some feasibly transferrable template for how other countries could/should model governance on economic/social matters. <br><br>Pardon my verbose response. Great work on your part as always. If nothing else, I feel better for having followed my own advice of listening to the other side's best with an open mind. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to do so!