Trump and Musk's latest threat to federal employees was just tweeted by Musk. All it lacks is a whip cracking.

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45. I don't think Key words matter.

We're dealing with idiots who think a metrics centered AI will be more efficient in items like program management, engineering, or logistics than human experiance and problem solving.
They're looking at metrics. How many widgets.
And no matter what your job is, if you don't have enough widgets per day or week, you aren't being efficient.

Say, you have a VA ICU nurse in Wyoming - maybe last week was quiet, no patients to watch over during her shifts, even though the previous week, they may have been slammed, and next week, there's a local event that always ends up with a couple patients in ICU. Their answer to this email this week shows they are not needed. Nothing was done. No patients admitted, none cared for, none released.

Or a job as a manager, scientist, researcher, or engineer. Jobs where there's weeks monitoring a situation, going to meetings, dealing with stakeholders and writing reports.

Those jobs "don't need a GS 13" with a cost base of $140k a year including overhead. AI can do the same thing much cheaper, right?

That's where this is heading. The "clever" Technocrats think that they will be able to control the AI and no longer need all those smart, experienced people who understand what gets accurate real world results and tell them they can't do what they want to do.
Technocrats are all about the fun and challenges to making money, rather than tangible progress.
They are emotionally driven to be on top.
If they understood basic logic, the would not ignore that if they create a tool that can act on its own like AI, to create it to recognize efficiency in productivity,
it will logically determine the Technocrats, the bosses, who only "worked" to enrich themselves or their egos, can be replaced far more easily than the actual smart people that did the painstaking but slow work to create any desired result.