DOGE Catch-All

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HandsonFire said:
Taxation without representation. Blue states paying for red states and red states will be the only ones to benefit. Gee I wonder what this will lead to…
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It will undoubtedly lead to further balkanization. As the feds overtly steal resources from blue states, at the benefit of reds (while concurrently decimating federal resources and backstops) the incentives to assist fellow states likely diminishes dramatically.
 
nycfan said:
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You know, I'm just going to say what more and more people are thinking - Elon Musk is fucking, batshit crazy. I don't care how wealthy he is, he is among the very weirdest of weird Trumpers and right-wingers. And I don't think he's nearly as intelligent as some had supposed - like Trump he seems impulsive and juvenile, spoiled and petty and utterly without compassion or human empathy, and lacking in self-discipline. Of course when you're as rich as he is you can pretty much do what you want.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
You know, I'm just going to say what more and more people are thinking - Elon Musk is fucking, batshit crazy. I don't care how wealthy he is, he is among the very weirdest of weird Trumpers and right-wingers. And I don't think he's nearly as intelligent as some had supposed - like Trump he seems impulsive and juvenile, spoiled and petty and utterly without compassion or human empathy, and lacking in self-discipline. Of course when you're as rich as he is you can pretty much do what you want.
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Rachel Maddow reported the other night that some 20 year old staffer, his wife and kid moved into a government office building. I assume that is all for him.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
You know, I'm just going to say what more and more people are thinking - Elon Musk is fucking, batshit crazy. I don't care how wealthy he is, he is among the very weirdest of weird Trumpers and right-wingers. And I don't think he's nearly as intelligent as some had supposed - like Trump he seems impulsive and juvenile, spoiled and petty and utterly without compassion or human empathy, and lacking in self-discipline. Of course when you're as rich as he is you can pretty much do what you want.
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He really isn't that bright. His knowledge is a mile wide and an inch deep. He can use a lot of jargon and sounds intelligent until he starts talking about a subject you have some expertise in, then it becomes clear he's really full of it. I look at something harmless his people as vectors bit. If people are looked at as vectors, their work output has both a quantity and a direction. So adding all of those vectors shows your true output, and that highlights the need for all of those vectors to be pointed in the right direction.

The idea that everyone should be pulling in the same direction is hardly groundbreaking. Imagine this concept being applied to sports. "Think of basketball players like vectors. A player can make 100 shots, but if they are in the wrong basket it's bad. We need to look at quantity and direction of contributions." Imagine that insight being treated as a genius bringing linear algebra to the hardwood.

For the vector comparison to work you cannot go beyond a junior high student's understanding of vectors. Pre-calculus students can tell you the product of two vectors is orthogonal to both, so multiplication is right out. We can add little arrows together, nothing more. All the sciency sounding stuff only works if you ignore everything beyond surface level knowledge. Using words that remind people of physics class may make people believe him to be intelligent, but it ultimately proves to be more cumbersome than insightful.
 
Batt Boy said:
is this fake? surely we are not studying this.
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Why should we not be? Trans people are going to exist, they're going to want to transition, not all will want or be able to afford sex reassigned surgery, so why shouldn't we try to understand the long term health impacts of that?
 
StrangePackage said:
Why should we not be? Trans people are going to exist, they're going to want to transition, not all will want or be able to afford sex reassigned surgery, so why shouldn't we try to understand the long term health impacts of that?
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I went to the site. It looks about as reliable as Project Veritas.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
You know, I'm just going to say what more and more people are thinking - Elon Musk is fucking, batshit crazy. I don't care how wealthy he is, he is among the very weirdest of weird Trumpers and right-wingers. And I don't think he's nearly as intelligent as some had supposed - like Trump he seems impulsive and juvenile, spoiled and petty and utterly without compassion or human empathy, and lacking in self-discipline. Of course when you're as rich as he is you can pretty much do what you want.
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Oligarchs gonna Oligarch.
 
nycfan said:
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Look at the banner in that screenshot. When Republicans can’t get their shit together to raise the debt limit, it will be “Democrats shutting down the government” despite Republicans holding the majority in both houses. They are already tuning up the guitar to play this song.
 
Batt Boy said:
is this fake? surely we are not studying this.
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Are you a biologist? A medical doctor? How would you know what to study? God, I'm so sick of this armchair science.

Here's a thought: a menstrual cycle is hormonal. Trans men have a different hormonal cycle than women, because of the hormones they are administered. So studying menstruation in XX who take male hormones helps us understand menstruation in general. I don't know if this is what they are studying, but it's certainly a plausible and good scientific reason for doing so.

So many great discoveries were found by people doing stuff others thought stupid. "Why are you trying to determine if light bends around the sun? Who cares? Surely we're not studying this." Good thing we didn't have you making decisions about what to study, because we wouldn't have relativity.

"Why are you studying the interactions between molds and bacteria? How stupid," said people pre-penicillin.

"Surely we're not spending money studying gila monster spit," said people before Wegovy.

"Why are you studying whether or not a single magnet moving back and forth on an infinite magnetic tape can compute algorithms," said people before computers.

If you're not a biologist, this should be your opinion about the propriety of biological research. It happens to be the same as mine. "Hmm, interesting. I wonder what they might get out of that study."
 
I believe the idea for Velcro came from somebody studying how cockleburs stuck to hair so tightly.
 
superrific said:
Are you a biologist? A medical doctor? How would you know what to study? God, I'm so sick of this armchair science.

Here's a thought: a menstrual cycle is hormonal. Trans men have a different hormonal cycle than women, because of the hormones they are administered. So studying menstruation in XX who take male hormones helps us understand menstruation in general. I don't know if this is what they are studying, but it's certainly a plausible and good scientific reason for doing so.

So many great discoveries were found by people doing stuff others thought stupid. "Why are you trying to determine if light bends around the sun? Who cares? Surely we're not studying this." Good thing we didn't have you making decisions about what to study, because we wouldn't have relativity.

"Why are you studying the interactions between molds and bacteria? How stupid," said people pre-penicillin.

"Surely we're not spending money studying gila monster spit," said people before Wegovy.

"Why are you studying whether or not a single magnet moving back and forth on an infinite magnetic tape can compute algorithms," said people before computers.

If you're not a biologist, this should be your opinion about the propriety of biological research. It happens to be the same as mine. "Hmm, interesting. I wonder what they might get out of that study."
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$600,000 is what they’d have gotten.
 
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DOGE Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal Workers

Elon Musk’s DOGE team is automating tasks as it continues its purge of the federal workforce.
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Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has deployed a proprietary chatbot called GSAi to 1,500 federal workers at the General Services Administration, WIRED has confirmed. The move to automate tasks previously done by humans comes as DOGE continues its purge of the federal workforce.

GSAi is meant to support “general” tasks, similar to commercial tools like ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude. It is tailored in a way that makes it safe for government use, a GSA worker tells WIRED. The DOGE team hopes to eventually use it to analyze contract and procurement data, WIRED previously reported.

“What is the larger strategy here? Is it giving everyone AI and then that legitimizes more layoffs?” asks a prominent AI expert who asked not to be named as they do not want to speak publicly on projects related to DOGE or the government. “That wouldn’t surprise me.”
 
Lando said:
For the vector comparison to work you cannot go beyond a junior high student's understanding of vectors. Pre-calculus students can tell you the product of two vectors is orthogonal to both, so multiplication is right out.
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FTR the cross product of two vectors is orthogonal to both. Not the inner product. This is neither here nor there. You are correct that wrapping stupid ideas up in bad analogies does not improve them.
 
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