🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & @wnober.bsky.social) When gov't engineers retire, projects take longer & costs (& cost overruns) go up. It’s harder to manage projects well w/ reduced staffing. Important to remember as DOGE cuts: reduced staffing can actually hurt efficiency.
Paper: https://tinyurl.com/yvy2jt93
Paper: https://tinyurl.com/yvy2jt93
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Musk surely lives in a dystopian paranoid drug enhanced world , and I am not sure how this exercise will end for him.
During the machine learning process, just like Tesla autopilot, simple functional errors may mean someone’s death.
AI is great in controlled enviros, to assist humans, not 2 replace them
As far as X , Musk can keep cutting w loss of quality of service manifesting in more Exodus , and less revenue .. but , who cares ? Ppl have other options , like BSky, i
Gov is not sim.. reducing to the basic until refil is needed inflicts arm in the less privileged
Even though the right in particular should very much want to copy France (in large part; they’ve got flaws too) but even the anti-Iraq War conservatives are anti-French.
When your opponent is making a mistake, do not interrupt them.
"Efficiency" was never more than a pretense.
https://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
https://x.com/ZLiscow/status/1684575728044773383
The first thing every efficiency 'expert' learns is 'yeah, you can ignore that part'.
Same with 'cutting back-office costs can damage efficiency'.
At some point 'optimum' became 'lowest possible'.
If Yaccarino is inside a closet somewhere , binge drinking , wouldn't surprise me.
In our democracy , we have a say , & musk is having a hard time w that. Efficiency is ab more than just $avings .