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The function of DOGE was to allow AI companies to extract the extremely valuable data that the federal government keeps on all it's operations and citizens.

This is why I think the lionization of the USDS is absurd. Obama built a monster without any consideration for what future administrations would do with it. It was a massive blunder.

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So you think we shouldn't have functional digital infrastructure and information storage because something bad could be done with it in the future? Seems like you could apply that to anything.

So you think the only way on Earth to achieve that was the USDS? We can all agree that something needs to be done, there's obviously a huge conversation to be had about the best way to achieve that, and you're clearly not serious enough to have that conversation.

So you would do what - have engineers hired as part of individual government departments instead of USDS? How would that stop them from being coopted by future administrations? Anybody employed by the US government can't be insulated from changes in who runs the government.

Since you're serious and I'm not, can you propose any specific solution that avoids this issue?

Edit: "The function of DOGE was to allow AN AI company to extract..."

Trump would have been told to stuff DOGE into some other agency if the digital service wasn't there. Did they offer any special access or just provide some vague connection in joe public's mind -"oh, computers" - so MAGA could wave off the abnormality of it all.

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