This is what the DOGE guys don’t understand: even if it seems you can easily replace something, you will find out that the devil is in the detail.
Government should not involve arcane wizardry nor should imputed mastery of it be held as an excuse to prevent it's modification to meet the will of the voters.
Ed: among the ways millions of lives could be lost: losing control of our nuclear arsenal or nuclear materials due to haphazardly firing people responsible for maintaining them. Bungling the response to the next pandemic, due to haphazardly firing people, cutting science funding and deleting inconvenient data. Starvation and disease from ceasing aid around the world. There's also the wars likely to result from the collapse of trust in the US as a security partner, but I suppose it's not correct to blame that on DOGE per se, even if it's an extension of the same principle.
It seems pretty clear to me at least why it would lead to circular arguments.
There is no such mechanism.
If there was then the vast majority of political debates on HN wouldn’t even exist.
Readers are just going to assume it’s random noise, or at least indistinguishable from noise, from a rando on the internet.
Sufficient chimpanzees with keyboards, or an LLM, can also type out every comment you’ve ever written, including the last few.
Which would be practically meaningless without some attached non-zero credibility.
I'm kind of tickled at the idea that a "hypothesis" is some hyper-specific thing with trappings of "credibility", and that anything less would be an insult, like we're not all just a bunch of nerds arguing on the internet. It's also kind of sad, though. This is why computer people need liberal arts education.
Are you ever going to directly answer the previous few questions?
That’s possible, however, it’s possible it’ll give a chance to remove autocrats who have suppressed the scientific method in favor of their prevailing opinions or preferences.
There will be a painful period but it could rejuvenate the systems.
I find your comment to be the same idea, but on something folks have foisted upon them and are forced to experience.
Remember when he said self driving is coming next year… every year… since 2017
But he is by far the most successful one.
At the very least the loudest successful one.
The vision of a technocratic bureaucracy isn’t workable given the complexity of life — so we need to distribute decisions to be made in context. We’re paying huge sums for a technocratic system that can’t account for the actual needs and which leads to suboptimal outcomes.
Dismantling the regulatory state and attendant bureaucracy creates room for better, localized, contextual systems to flourish.
And I guess it doesn't matter how many people will be hurt during the churn...
But regardless, DOGE's goal isn't to make government better, it's to make government broken and cheap, so it will be easier to funnel money to Musk's (and other Trump cronies') companies instead.
They don’t care about ‘saving money’, they’re just messing about to see if they can. To move the goalpost of what is acceptable. To goosestep the United States back into a Russia-aligned nation that lets rich people pluck the poors bald like chickens.
Not just that. They’re gish galloping the courts and the news.
So many things, some dumb, some dangerous, some contradictory.
The goal is to make it impossible to o keep track of what’s going on.