The gov and US domains should be mapped to global and local, less brick and mortar and offices
Perhaps it would be wiser to scale down the buildings, facilities and lands held by government based on such things and move to work from home. Most of the information from government research does not reach a tiny fraction of the world’s population. Everyday I see groups paid to do something and then the information is inaccessible because it is just dumped on the Internet without providing tools and dependencies. Perhaps some AIs can work 24/7 to map and evaluate what is necessary and what can be done by global collaborations.
There is no simple method that works across all things, but generally you devote more attention to something and it changes. If you have good intentions and good work habits, it tends to move toward better methods and values over time. Dumping money without attention usually ends up more waste. I would suggest spending millions to clean up NASA.gov – way before spending on brick and mortar and office perks.
I have long wanted to “rewrite the gov domain” by gathering and indexing, removing duplicates and overlaps, checking systemic issues. I am too tired this morning to run through a large project (for one person), but relatively small for careful curators with careful AI algorithms and lots of memory.
site:gov has 1.42 Billion entries today. And it is a lot easier and more useful to organize that to be lossless and complete and careful – than to spend on old building that grew up in some hey-day.
Encouraging humans to gather in buildings and try to memorize, in human brain cells, what needs to be done will always fail. But smart machines can store the same information and let humans supervise and try to keep it honest. Much of gov domain now is jobs. Gov is the USA mostly and lots of gov is now labeled with org and com and other things. Following the money is getting harder, not easier.
Every human and organization has to have a model of (1) the Universe, (2) the World, (3) their location, (4) family, (5) work, (6) interests, (7) the unexpected. And much of that is on the Internet but badly indexed and incomplete. The global responsibilities of the Gov domain grow, but the local places can be smarter than the federal, and most things are global and systemic, not ‘”we have to put it in a building in some place”.
I am just too tired to simulate it for you just now. But “shrink physical assets”, “make local better but enforce rules more”, “work for the human species”, “lossless”, “accessible”, “auditable”, “continuously improved”.
I know those buildings from 35-45 years ago. What they do much or all could be done modular, portable, distributed, “not really necessary”, “make it global as part of systemic systems”. If the US is part of something all countries are doing, more global nodes might help, but when you put humans there they always want more to grow bigger and not work.
This is just a few words. I am too tired to do it justice.
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The AIs now are not cheaper. It takes 200 expensive and ill coordinated humans to emulate one call center AI, because they refuse to give the AIs permanent auditable memory.
Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
