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Comment by hdlothia | Hacker News Reader

Implying all government employees are morons is pretty harsh. I know a lot of intelligent, driven people working in government or for government contractors. I know we think we're gods here for writing websites but a little humility goes a long way.

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I know a lot of government employees who are smart and driven, too. They are not the people who write things like IRS audit letters, military after-action reports, and the like. Many government employees are barely literate, and told to spend all day writing stuff.

I'll have to agree to disagree. The government certainly employs a solid amount of stupid people, as does every institution, but I would quibble with the idea that writing reports as your main job function makes you more likely to be a barely literate moron.

I appreciate the rest of your post though and I think you make a great point about AI being very effective for certain types of work

For the record, I didn't say that writing reports all day makes you a barely literate moron. I said that a lot of barely literate morons are told to write reports all day - very different - and categorized the kind of reports that these folks often write. Lots of smart people also write reports all day at the government, and probably would also benefit from a tool that makes their writing a lot faster but worse, since the quality basically doesn't matter.

Do you know this for certain? As in, have you done the analysis to prove this? Collected all the IQ and other aptitude tests of these people to conclude this for certain?

Some of them could be in the beginning part of their government career attending school. Did you run a survey to ask these people what they do with their lives?

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