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One of the dude literally solved a hundreds years problem and won a prize. He coded an AI to decipher an ancient manuscript AIUI. I certainly wouldn't look down on the achievement of that young programmer.

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None of which qualifies him for anything he’s doing here.

What would constitute qualifications in your view?

Advanced knowledge of the inner workings of governmental oversight, government funding, and the ability to understand what they are doing is illegal and dangerous.... Enough to know that whatever they have been promised is not worth the unintended consequences of their actions.

Pause any spending $X on a Foreign Nation is not aligned with making America Gooder.

The better question is why hasn't anyone done this before?

Yes it does. He knows how to solve hard problems. Ending the vaste waste, fraud and abuse is a huge spagetti code problem.

To Actually fix the embedded structural problems of an established system requires at least as much wisdom as intelligence. So far I have not seen Elon and his young minions demonstrating deep levels of wisdom

You are being impressed by irrelevant credentials. This is what tools people into a sens of confidence while totally misplaced. he is not helping to solve hard problems or deal with corruption. He is aiding in destroying democracy and enabling corruption and collusion.

You have it backwards.

So would you say that the first step of detangling spaghetti code is to start deleting huge chunks of it without knowing what it does or why it was coded that way?

There is no control-z in physical systems, especially ones that rely on human constructs and tradition

This is not a code problem, and I guarantee none of these kids know COBOL

What a load of nonsense. Expertise in one field does not mean you're going to excel in a different field. There are plenty of people with relevant expertise and equal problem-solving abilities, but these traitors actively don't want them, because they aren't going to say and do what they want.

https://xkcd.com/793/

Being smart is a qualification.

There is no such thing as "being smart". You can be arbitrarily good at some things, and arbitrarily bad at anything else. Even the greatest physicists can have laughably naive philosophical positions. Linus Paulding, one of the greatest minds in chemistry in history, was convinced that you can cure virtually any disease with a large enough dose of vitamin C. Expertise, even the extreme peak, in one field doesn't give you expertise of any kind in another field.

This is factually wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient

Well... there is also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease

Ho we got a random link to a irrelevant article.

Pack it up boys.

IQ is a grift. It is not a measure of intelligence, but "not stupidity".

Any score over 100 means no discernable difference in intelligence. https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...

IQ is mostly BS. And even if it's not, it only measures the ability to learn, not the actual skills. What I wrote remains true: just because you have skills in one area (AI deciphering of hieroglyphics scroll), doesn't mean in any way whatsoever that you have skills for something entirely unrelated (administrative matters).

I'd rather have people who are smart with experience handling our inner government workings. ;P

Can you explain why this makes him a good fit for doing government payroll?

Ooh, he won a prize?? Why didn't anyone say so, he's clearly qualified!

or the achievements of the thousands of people who worked on ML before him to help set the stage.

I've worked with a wide range of brilliant people of various ages in my life. Nothing I've seen about these kids makes me think they are significantly smarter than the somewhat-above-average folks I've worked with. Historically, the government has hired people like this (for example the NSA pulls in some number of mathematically inclined graduates every year; NIH has brilliant interns, etc, etc).

And none of these kids skills mean they are particularly well suited to the subtle job of reforming the establishment.

None of that prepares him for the things he is working on now, and they have blatantly flouted the law and all security rules to get access to the treasury payments system

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