in case you haven't caught on: the objective is NOT to save money, be more "efficient," improve anything...the objective is to reduce the functionality of the government to zero
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A young man with no government experience who has yet to even complete his undergraduate degree is working for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and has been tasked with using artificial intelligence to rewrite the agency’s rules and regulations.
Where are they finding these people? Why is everything in DOGE being led by the most inexperienced young people? Is it just because they're ambitious, naïve and malleable?
They're choosing people who are in the Nazi group chat and also did an internship at one of Musk’s companies.
No senior folks because more senior people won't break the law because their boss says so.
Patsys. Scapegoats. Tools.
i’d guess some amount of dunning-kruger… find people with too much experience and they’ll say “na that’s simplistic we can’t do it”… find people juuuust experienced enough to have done basic things and they won’t know just how complex things can get
this is a very typical thing in IT: juniors almost universally try to apply schemas to the world so everything fits in a database - they assume that people always have 3 names, that addresses are simple, that dealing with time zones is trivial… reality is far more complex than that; the universe doesn’t fit in neat little boxes
Thank God we got rid of Chevron Deference. /s /un-s
This is a very specific picture, but I've seen this building and appreciate its purpose when run properly. Look it up. It's a crazy building.
Trump's administration is too stupid to think for themselves, so they're getting AI to do their thinking for them.
Think about all those asshole conservates in your lives that probably at some point in their racist lives said something like, "we just want the best person for the job." Big if true. Racist if not. Hypocritical, because I don't hear them anymore.