@DougLain because musk is a genuine technocrat which the establishment fears far more than the far-right (in deed the establishment needs the far-right to run against). this was also seen with Dominic Cummings.

@OrphicCapital if people were actually pretending it wouldn't be so bad. but the average employee earnestly worships the most incompetent managers imaginable and when you point it out they save face by claiming they're pretending.

@echetus left-wing academics managed to poison the phrase pool these bio-LLMs draw from, so you end up with utter incoherence where on some topics they'll still sound like grey-faced civil servants and on other topics like Idi Amin.

@FischerKing64 im convinced the left doesn't want it to be easy for white middle-class people to move about because by making it hard it lets them pretend border policy is strong (it isn't) and argue for relaxing it.

@johncalhoom @jmrphy even if SCOTUS was sympathetic to such a radical move, they're going to run into impeachment if they try and usurp all of congress's powers. there's a reason the presidency is a weak office, it doesn't have a lot of weapons to fight with.

@JonathonPSine in china it's often cover for centralising power in beijing, in the US it's now about centralising power in the whitehouse (i.e. proceduralism favours congress).

@Paul_Heron_ it was always bad? the reason the federal bureaucracy is a mess is because FDR only wanted incompetent people in his cabinet and intentionally had them compete with one another producing agencies with overlapping remits.

@CityBureaucrat i.e. you have a 40 yr old system and you want to feed its outputs into a modern system. but writing a script inhouse to do it is impossible. so they end up feeding the 40 yr outputs into a 35 yr old system which can still read it, and then feeding that on, etc.

@TheStalwart a big chunk of jobs were easily automatable before LLMs, why would LLMs speed up this process? unless say PE starts buying companies, automating them and reselling them I don't see how the diffusion happens at all. there's not even a job title to automate stuff at the moment.

@d_Vato it's a dud concept because it hasn't been effectively instrumentalised since its invention in the 90s, and this isn't a point i made up. it's a standard realist talking-point.

@plusEVpunter @DeepDishEnjoyer like imagine if by life trajectory he just meant height at age t. then you could average the height of elon and feynman at each t (a linear combination), and then that could be a curvilinear asymptote he aims for (which he presumably approaches from below).