Lovely warm spring day today. I put a cat tree out next to my front door. Both of my cats have found it and immediately recognised its strategic advantage. They started fighting over possession of it at any rate.
This being a laboured link to indicate that my cats display more intelligence than the US government at the moment.
Thousands of government workers have been sacked by DOGE over the last two months, with the destruction still in full swing. I thought this was all inspired by a love for small government. In fact, it looks as though they want to maintain government capabilities by using AI. This is astonishing. It appears they actually believe their own hype about AI.
Have they ever used AI for anything? Like a google search? It’s useless. It produces walls of readable text, but it can’t tell the difference between fact and fiction, truth or lies. It gives every appearance of doing the same job as a human, much faster, but the results are worse.
In one sense, this explains why the rulers of the USA are a bunch of amoral liars. They actually believe the things their computers tell them and they don’t have the critical faculties to evaluate the results. On the other hand, they think they can use this unreliable and immature technology to run the country.
Maybe it will work.
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