without the benefit of the nuclear football?

Well, crashing everything really.

He’d never do this with his own money but he’s more than happy to do it with ours.

Is just on paper.

His companies aren't meeting their financial obligations. His products are not that great. Most of his revenue/wealth comes from government contracts. There are (maybe were) active investigations into many of his legacy and new ventures, like Neurolink, being led by a variety of US government agencies.

He's not very smart. In fact he seems to be a pseudo-intellectual. He's a bully and he behaves like a psychopath.

Plus, he's a drug addict.

He will be found to have created an illusion. It will all come out.

coming out from various sources. Is it new, or is it me?

this being the end goal after musk and his tech brats crashed the third gov agency earlier this week. Looks like they were right.

That before thousands - maybe millions, lose their jobs to AI there would be an informed discussion of a universal wage.

Well, that's what I would think. MMMV (musk's mileage may vary). Oh, and does AI pay income tax?

"He is doing it because he likes wielding power more than anything else. It's more fun to ruin hundreds of thousands of people's lives than to ruin just hundreds of people's lives"

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/elon-musk-doge-donald-trump-silicon-valley

Leader and co-conspirator of a mob who breached government data illegally.

My post does not in any way condone Ramaswamy. One of the reasons I posted this is that no one has figured out why he left. In fact, do a search here and you will find a thread about when he walked away from Doge. Posters were trying to figure out why he did so. Not one poster got it right.

As far as your comment "he is a con man", name one who's not. Why are you posting the obvious?

Trust his word? The word of a source close to him? I think your OP is informative, but do you really think we now know why he walked away. We don’t even know if he was booted. Your post implies that Ramaswamy was too smart or moral to get on board. Maybe that’s the case, maybe not. I for one still don’t know the “real” reason he’s no longer a DOGE co-captain, but I am glad to see your detailed posts discussing what could possibly be going on with Musk’s plan.

I know the office complex and the area very well where Rama Ling AAA ding dong had his
“biotech biz” and they are just offices with no biotech work being done there at all. And his
mother had the office next door to him and his brother where they ran their multimillion $
scam which prayed on people desperately trying to find help from the scourge of Alzheimer’s
by falsely spreading misinformation about having a medicine that showed promise in treatment
for that awful disease. So he might have left doing business with Musk for one reason or another
but he is just like Trump in that he is just a piece of shit who got rich stealing money from people
by being a con man.

has turned over claims reviews to the same AI that USHealth (? the company with the assassinated CEO?) used. The one with a 90% error rate. I'm getting denials right and left for no apparent reason and it is maddening.

that was going to implement the anesthesiology reimbursement that limited the time they would cover based on procedure? If it took longer, too bad, no reimbursement? And they pulled back after extreme pushback?

it was Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield.

my coverage doesn't say Anthem anywhere, but clearly there is some relationship.

STOP
is what a well trained human would have done. Who can consider a car well trained if it doesn’t know how to STOP?
Script kiddies have no business creating car controls.

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Having said that, the operative example i think is not AI, but Musk's Boring Company and the sham tech he sold Last Vegas on.

Ie it was always going to be a con job

Not only do you do a ‘test project or proof of concept’, you also normally have your existing system in place to verify the results - in other words both the new and old systems running parallel.

Musk’s plan to implement a full system implementation without a corresponding backup (thus the terminations) can potentially result in a total system failure without a recovery method. In other words - once he implements then regardless of success or failure - there is no turning back.

This could potentially be a disaster beyond belief. And since Musk is a ‘special government employee’ there is no ability to bring legal actions against him or recover damages by the people he has harmed.

Very worse case - system failure and shut down the likes of which we have never seen before. Not only will federal payments not process but there would be no method of recovery UNLESS the system could be rebooted/reloaded to an earlier time. That also means that the original hardware and software is still in place to run the original applications AND you could get the staff (rehired) and back in place.

Only thing I would say is have cash on hand.

P.S. I didn’t want to get into the database and applications interfaces with other systems both within the federal government and outside.

I wanted to elaborate more in my OP, but I was already tempting tldr. I am referring to your first two paragraphs.

At McD's we would not only do the testing but have the systems in place; the systems would have been tested and re-tested. Not only that, but because McD's is made up of franchisees, all of whom are independent businessmen who respect and trust each other for just that reason, they would be given a forum on which to report their experience. Such forums were (back at the time I was there) large owner-operator meetings.

As far as republicans turning away from Musk, take a look at this, posted by TexasTowelie:

Poll: Republicans Are Done with Elon Musk... Approval Plummets - Rebel HQ

Believe that harm would/could be done.

I kind of wonder about that special employee status too. But I based my thought processes on the idea that as a Federal Employee working in a position within the federal government, you are somewhat free of liability for actions taken while acting in good faith.

When I was a government employee I know that I never worried about being liable for actions taken on the job, even if I made a mistake.

Oh, I re-read your statement - Yes I am in total agreement that you can sue the government. What I was referring to is the ability to sue MUSK & his team directly. Hope that clarifies a bit (I am old, smiling).

We are in new territory now (smile).

He has tens of thousands of his Muskrats fawning over him every day on X, defending his actions with claims of his intelligence putting him on a different level than the rest of us mere mortals. It’s gone to his head and he believes he’s infallible. So now that he has the keys to the country he thinks he can just slam his AI into the works and of course it’ll work because he’s all powerful.

Elon Musk is rooting FOR the Terminator.

I don't like the guy, but I thought that he saw something he didn't like and got the hell out of dodge.

It will go over like a tank of Mercury spilling in a lab, Fukushima, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl all combined. Ben Franklin (founded the USPS) will be rolling in his grave. Buckle up buttercup!
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In this video. I hope Poindexter Oglethorpe stops by to comment.

I wouldn't put it past Musk. It sounds like something he would do.

Thanks for this interesting contribution to the discussion.

if the experiment fails, they have still managed to destroy the federal government, which is their wet dream.

That's probably exactly how he sold it to Trump, too. "Win-win!!"

What is "destroy the federal government." What is your definition of that?

decimating the federal workforce, either by direct action or intimidation, removing regulations, corrupting the databases, I mean, all the things they seem to be doing under our noses. Basically, what is outlined in Project 2025; or as Norquist famously said, to shrink it until it can go down a bathtub drain.

It's easy to destroy things but so much harder to rebuild them.

called the court system and it has largely forbidden them to do this.

Now they may decide to ignore these court decisions, but that's another topic.

So you're saying the government is destroyed, even when the court system is returning a volley against an illegal action?

Do you consider the court system destroyed?

What about the military? Is it destroyed?

And clearly hope your perspective prevails.

I just like it when people be specific and I think saying the federal government is destroyed when many functions are working leaves you no options if it were destroyed. What would you call it then?