I'm not American and I find it hard to believe that there is actually no strategy behind this whatsoever?
I get that it's what media are screaming at the top of their lungs (orange man bad etc), but there must be more behind this, no?
Then again, they did put JFK jr. in charge of making infectious disease research impossible. I couldnt think of a worse person for that or politics in general.
No, there is no more to this. They fucking eliminated grants for studies on transgenic mice because they thought that was the same thing as transgender. That’s the level of thought and care put into this.
If there were a plan, one would hope they would have shared it?
This is my frustration - there is clearly no plan, but smart people will assume that there must be one, because they bring their own biases of how they approach problems and project that onto trump.
Trump has always been a terrible executor even when getting the initial idea correct. See all his failed businesses. In this case, along with the tariffs, his frame of reference is 40+ years out of date. He thinks that people will do whatever they have to in order to work with US. That the best and brightest won’t leave. That other countries will bow down to his will. That’s not the world today, even if a lot of Teslers are made in the US.
> The guidance said that in the event of a request that “violates or doesn’t follow proper procedures”, employees were to contact Dorothy Aronson, the NSF’s chief information officer. “Do not give any indication that the request will be denied,” the guidance statement noted. Two members of DOGE, Luke Farritor and Zachary Terrell, were quickly given complete access to NSF grant-management systems despite statements in the guidance to staffers that they should initially receive read-only access.
I feel like “don’t make them follow policy” and “we’re going to lie about the access they have” is pretty telling as to whether there’s more behind this
The benefits of education on a country are decades long to fully see the positive outcomes. How do you expect differently by destroying said institutions? Your kids or likely kids kids will be feeling the decision of today as the beginning of the dark ages (at least in the US). Without innovative people able to achieve great progress, where does society, , hell humanity go? At the very least from a here and now position, it's a strong signal to continue pulling money out of the US and into countries that have better long term outlook.
There no strategy. They put rfk Jr in charge of public health. Orange man is bad. Or more specifically he's a selfish corrupt liar who doesn't really care that much if he destroys the country. To the extent that he'd prefer to be a king or dictator he'd prefer economy and military to be strong while he's in control but even that falls to his whims and instincts which are authoritarian, racist and conspiratorial. He's too intellectually lazy to learn how things work. Of course some of his subordinates are far right true believers but even then flattering Trump corruption and incompetence rule the day more then ideology.
There hasn't been time for any kind of coherent review of the programs. A few programs receive enough outrage, and they're restored almost immediately.
So no, I don't think there is any kind of strategy beyond "cut any budget item that my constituents don't care about, especially if it makes liberals angry".
Brain surgery is invasive, but the power that the surgeon exercises over the patient is bound to the context of the surgery. Side effects may linger, but the surgeon cannot increase or alter the side effects after the surgery. With Neuralink installed, the owner of the proprietary software that runs on it (because let's be real, there's no way they'd let you control your own brain) has indefinite read and write access to your mind. No thought is private; no action is your own. Everything that happens in your brain happens either because the owners let it, or made it happen.
There is a market for advertising-subsidized neural implants.
Think of the profit potential of being able to directly influence consumer brains patterns. It's a multi-trillion dollar industry, minimum.
The fear isn't that it's an option; It's creating a world where you can't afford not to. Much like how modern life requires internet participation, the idea of a potential world that requires neural implant participation and the economic incentives described above is viscerally horrific.
> The fear isn't that it's an option; It's creating a world where you can't afford not to.
It's not even just that I couldn't afford not to. It's that in a way, I couldn't choose not to. Anything anyone says that has Neuralink installed is compromised. Any friendly suggestion to grab lunch at Major Chain Restaurant TM could be an ad. Any anecdote could be political campaigning.
It's not just not having it myself, it's the fact that those around me having it is a problem.
What a terrible position to be in if the technology actually helps disabled folks though. On one hand their quality of life may improve. On the other, there may be a huge (possibly justified) stigma on all implanted people due to what you're writing about.
Text (specs + conversations) is the starting point of 100 percent of all CAD drawings made by more than 1 human though (so essentially everything you see around you).
I don't get your point (and yes I use CAD programs myself).
Most of the things I work on are "make this fit onto that like this". There's not that much information contained in that sentence, it's contained in the 2 objects I was just handed. Sometimes we have drawings for that stuff, most of the time we don't. The "like this" part can be a conversation, but the rest of the info is missing and needs to be recreated.
I said this below, but most of the mechanical people I've met are good at talking with their hands. "take this thing like this, turn it like that, mount it like this, drill a hole here, look down there" and so on. We still don't have a good analog for this in computers. VR is the closest we have and it's still leagues behind the Human Hand mk. 1. Video is good too, but you have to put in a bit more attention to camerawork and lighting than taking a selfie.
Either you have no idea how terrible real world commercial software (architecture) is or you're vastly underestimating newer LLMs or both.
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