If AI is so important, maybe it should be owned by the government and free to use for all citizens.
Even (especially?) the military is a dumpster fire but it's at least very good at doing what it exists to do.
That said, there are plenty of successful government actions across the world, where Europe or Japan probably have a good advantage with solid public services. Think streets, healthcare, energy infrastructure, water infrastructure, rail, ...
The difference here is that we have people like yourself: those who have zero faith in our government and as such act as double agents or saboteurs. When people such as yourself gain power in the legislator they "starve the beast". Meaning, purposefully deconstruct sections of our government such that they have justification for their ideological belief that our government doesn't work.
You guys work backwards. The foregone conclusion is that government programs never work, and then you develop convoluted strategies to prove that.
Library of Congress
National Park Service
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
NASA
Smithsonian Institution
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Social Security Administration (SSA)
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) air traffic control
U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
Even saying the military is a dumpster fire isn't accurate. The military has led trillions of dollars worth of extraction for the wealthy and elite across the globe.
In no sane world can you say that the ability to protect GLOBAL shipping lanes as a failure. That one service alone has probably paid for itself thousands of times.
We aren't even talking about things like public education (high school education use to be privatized and something only the elites enjoyed 100 years ago; yes public high school education isn't even 100 years old) or libraries or public parks.
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I really don't understand this "gobermint iz bad" meme you see in tech circles.
I get more out of my taxes compared to equivalent corporate bills that it's laughable.
Government is comprised of people and the last 50 years has been the government mostly giving money and establishing programs to the small cohorts that have been hoarding all the wealth. Somehow this is never an issue with the government however.
Also never understand the arguments from these types either because if you think the government is bad then you should want it to be better. Better mostly meaning having more money to redistribute and more personal to run programs, but it's never about these things. It's always attacking the government to make it worse at the expense of the people.
1. The National Weather Service. Crown jewel and very effective at predicting the weather and forecasting life threatening events.
2. IRS, generally very good at collecting revenue. 3. National Interagency Fire Service / US Forest service tactical fire suppression
4. NTSB/US Chemicals Safety Board - Both highly regarded.
5. Medicare - Basically clung to with talons by seniors, revealed preference is that they love it.
6. DOE National Labs
7. NIH (spicy pick)
8. Highway System
There are valid critiques of all of these but I don’t think any of them could be universally categorized as a complete dumpster fire.
2) state parks are pretty rad.
I mean, name 2 things anyone owns that aren't dumpster fires?
Long time ago industrial engineers used to say, "Even Toyota has recalls."
Something being a dumpster fire is so common nowadays that you really need a better reason to argue in support of a given entity's ownership. (Or even non-ownership for that matter.)