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This may seem like impractical advice. How does one increase the scope of perception? Personally, I’ve found that a meditation practice leads to this.
This is what the DOGE guys don’t understand: even if it seems you can easily replace something, you will find out that the devil is in the detail.
They don’t care. They don’t care about ‘saving money’, they’re just messing about to see if they can. To move the goalpost of what is acceptable. To goosestep the United States back into a Russia-aligned nation that lets rich people pluck the poors bald like chickens.
This is what the DOGE guys don’t understand: even if it seems you can easily replace something, you will find out that the devil is in the detail.
I find your comment to be the same idea, but on something folks have foisted upon them and are forced to experience.
This is what the DOGE guys don’t understand: even if it seems you can easily replace something, you will find out that the devil is in the detail.
On reading the article before the comments, I literally was remembering Musk's initial descriptions of The Boring Company and how they were wildly forgetting or glossing over key details that would mean the difference between exciting leap forward to terrifying death trap. I find your comment to be the same idea, but on something folks have foisted upon them and are forced to experience.
Remember when he said self driving is coming next year… every year… since 2017
This is what the DOGE guys don’t understand: even if it seems you can easily replace something, you will find out that the devil is in the detail.
They don’t care. They don’t care about ‘saving money’, they’re just messing about to see if they can. To move the goalpost of what is acceptable. To goosestep the United States back into a Russia-aligned nation that lets rich people pluck the poors bald like chickens.
Not just that. They’re gish galloping the courts and the news.
So many things, some dumb, some dangerous, some contradictory.
The goal is to make it impossible to o keep track of what’s going on.
This is what the DOGE guys don’t understand: even if it seems you can easily replace something, you will find out that the devil is in the detail.
This is what frustrates me to no end, re what's going on with DOGE and the indistriminant shutting off of legacy systems. As Joel Spolsky once commented, , all non-trivial abstractions are, to some degree, leaky. This is because reality itself is leaky. Or another way to put it, reality itself is non-trivially complex. And any sufficiently long-lived production system that works at scale necessarily has to accommodat…
In 1800, the government of the USA spent 2% of GDP. In 2020, the government of the USA spent 30% of GDP. In 2024, the government of France spent 57% of GDP. Are the people of 2024 France really getting 28x the value from their government as 1800 USA? It is not evil to ask these questions or to experiment with government, And more people should consider backing off from political-media consumption as it is clearly tox…
For example, you are in a restaurant, you can drink tap water for free, or sparkling water for $3, is sparkling water infinitely better than tap water? Infinity doesn't exist in the real world, but the real world has plenty of people drinking $3 sparkling water, which tells us that the reasoning is broken.
A more sensible reasoning would be: would you get better value by paying 55% (57%-2%=55%) of your income to "upgrade" from a 1800 US government to a 2024 France government, or you are better off doing something else with that money.
This is what the DOGE guys don’t understand: even if it seems you can easily replace something, you will find out that the devil is in the detail.
Can we please not DOGEify every comment thread? I know that it's on a lot of minds all the time, but we have a whole spot on the front page effectively reserved for DOGE 24/7, and I'd like to see literally anything else in the other 29 slots.