“The government” is the abstract bogey man that can do anything, huh?
If you want some real conspiracy, take a look at multinational mega corporations and how they create an illusion of choice that ends up as revenue for their owners, controlling prices while avoiding taxes and livable wages for their workers and buying politicians around the globe.
But nooo that’s too real and scary and depressing when it’s much more exciting to fantasize about secret technology and aliens and whatever.
B-but the computers go beep boop
In all my dealings with government entities, they were fucking clueless. Even the trained ones. Look over and all their PCs run Windows 95. Government websites look like they were coded by Homer Simpson.
But somehow, they got all this awesome, secret tech? I don’t buy it. Their power is in their numbers and endless budgets with very little recourse for fucking up. Not from being smart or even competent at their jobs.
Most government entities seem to work this way. This doesn’t mean that a division that actually has its shit together doesn’t exist.
Yup don’t see it. That’s like saying you built an epic castle out of shit. I don’t see how if all your pieces are lames, you’re gonna put together some all-star team. Government positions are for the lazy. And AI is coming right from the top.
But I bet that’s what they want you to think.
DARPA and your DMV are not the same thing
It absolutely does not. I have worked for the US government doing “simulations” of UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) control systems as a software engineer. I put simulation in quotes because they hardly qualify, they were using a shitty game engine from a shitty war game that was like 10 years old. Their tech was a shit show absolute garbage. The worst job I ever had. I do not believe they have anything we don’t see in the private sector or in academia. They don’t have secret tech like that.
When you say academia… do you mean private institutions only, or are you including public institutions and researchers that are funded by government grants?
I mean I live in germany, so sure hell no. They run Windows 10, and will panic when there will be no updates anymore.
Only a year ago I was doing tech support for DARPA. Yeah, no. they’re still running Windows 7. A year prior to that I was doing some design work for the Pentagon and a lot of their computers are still Windows XP. You’d be woefully surprised how much is still running on COBAL
Government worker here too, can confirm our system runs on COBOL. The wizards who can program it have infinite job security.
They should get it to run for president, it would probably be a better option
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People also believe that there’s a god that changes water into wine, walks on water, … too. People believe all sorts of stuff, weird or not.
Worry about things that you can do something about or explicitly react too.
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