Philip Howard joins Infinite Loops to explain how America’s legal and regulatory system became too complicated to function effectively—and how we can rebuild it around judgment, accountability, and human agency.
We discuss why government has become unmanageable, how thousand-page rulebooks discourage individual judgment, why infrastructure projects can take decades to approve, and how public institutions end up costing more while delivering less.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
1:00 Government Without Judgment
14:00 Why Government Burns Money
20:38 150 Million Words
30:20 Principles Over Rulebooks
39:00 America’s Anti-Invention Problem
48:07 AI and Human Accountability
57:42 Philip’s Reform Agenda
1:08:00 A Diversity of Conformities
1:13:36 Two Ideas for Humanity
