My Agenda For D. O. G. E.

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Musk has asked for unpaid volunteers working “80 hours a week” for D. O. G. E. He doesn’t want “part time idea guys”. Although I can’t afford the living expenses of Washington D.C. so I am disqualified by Musk’s criterion, the following LIFE LONG AGENDA for D. O. G. E. is an example of what I, otherwise, could bring to the effort.

1. Hume’s Guillotine Rather Than An AGI Manhattan Project

Rather than an AGI Manhattan Project, compile all public government databases into a unified corpus and award prizes for its lossless compression as described in Hume’s Guillotine:

The Manhattan Project did enormous collateral damage to the scientific community as did the Apollo Program do enormous collateral damage to aerospace which took a half century of effort to expose and begin to remediate.

The reason for this should be obvious – especially to “Trump’s Pirate Ship”:

These Big Government Initiatives create bureaucratic structures that attain both mythic status and the power to suppress any outside innovation that may become politically embarrassing.

Replace bureaucracy with a simple objective criterion for rewarding competitors, rather than suppressing competitors.

The side-benefits will be manifold:

  • ruthless discovery of biases and corruption in the quality of data
  • ruthless reforms of the sociological institutions that have misinformed public policy for generations
  • ruthless reorientation of the burgeoning machine learning industry toward truth discovery (IS) as prior to “alignment” (OUGHT)

2. Place Science Funding Authority In the Hands Of Inventors

2.1 Establish a single scientific research fund – defining “scientific research” as any truth discovery process, the result of which is not patentable.
2.2 Gather data on which inventors are responsible for the greatest amount of royalties in the recent past.
2.3 Divide authority over the scientific research funds between the inventors in proportion to the amount of the royalties paid for their inventions, thereby replacing the scientific research bureaucracy.

3. Replace Fusion Energy Development With Prize Awards For a Series of Objective Milestones

I created the legislative language for this with guidance from a founder of the US fusion energy program clear back in 1992.

4. Common Carrier Status Contingent on Compliance with Publish/Subscribe Protocols For Social Media

The “common carrier” status established in the 1930s was the proper standard for protecting carriers from lawsuits over the content they carried. This includes such objectionable content as kiddie porn, instructions on the construction of weapons of mass destruction, etc. The phone company is not burdened with intervening in the conversations that may involve criminal behavior.

Pub/Sub protocols make it possible to unburden social media from legal liability for content contingent on their adhering to publication protocol of all content submission via their platforms for interoperation between competitive social media “subscribe” filters – which retain all powers of censorship and the corresponding legal liabilities.

5. Replace Commerce Department Anti-Trust Authority With a Single Tax On Liquidation Value of Net Assets

The Commerce Departments has utilized its powers of anti-trust enforcement to obtain compliance with unlawful government mandates such as social media censorship. Amazon’s monopoly profits are a direct result of the 16th Amendment, and should be considered bribes paid by the Commerce Department to Jeff Bezos for unlawful bureaucratic powers exercised through such loss centers as Amazon Prime’s video propaganda (ref “Rings of Power” government propaganda paid for by these bribes).

This has the “side” benefit of turning the US into a factory churning out many more Elon Musks:

PS: This coincidentally just in:
Musk Alleges Bezos Urged Selling Tesla, SpaceX Shares
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Elon Musk has publicly stated that Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, advised individuals at Mar-a-Lago to sell their Tesla and SpaceX stocks, predicting a loss for Donald Trump in the recent US presidential election. This claim was made via a social media post, with no direct confirmation or denial from Bezos or his representatives.

https://x.com/i/trending/1859613034286809126

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Some good ideas in that post – but that is not one of them. Any single source of funds is eventually going to be captured by the Usual Suspects, and over-committed to follies like Anthropogenic Global Warming. Which is effectively where we are today with government bureaucrats handing out taxpayer funds.

Instead, we want multiple competing sources of scientific funding, so that the “far-out” ideas which are outside today’s mainstream have a chance.

The best approach would be to look back at the most successful project ever to advance fundamental science and useful technology – Bell Labs. They gave us the transistor, cell phone technology, and the Cosmic Microwave Background. We should investigate what made Bell Labs such a success – and then replicate it with multiple competing labs.

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I would agree with you were it not for the need to compromise with the intractable pseudo-libertarian delusions under which The Trump Pirate Ship labors. In that counterfactual world, I would dispense with all of this nonsense and get right to replacing votes with decentralizing all delivery of social goods into the hands of the men who place their flesh blood and bone between chaos and property rights – who would then, consistent with TFR (via their genetic interests), empower guys like Musk (unburdened by #5) to establish the equivalent of SpaceX Labs. Hughes Research Laboratories is superior to Bell Labs as exemplar in this regard as Musk is the new Hughes.

And while I agree that Lutnick heading the Commerce Department may succeed in anti-trust enforcement in a manner that provides, for example, Amazon Labs in compromise with Jeff Bezos, as a way of diverting monopoly profits into scientific research more productive than the various government science agencies, is that really any more institutionally sustainable?

I argue it is not for the following very carefully considered tradeoff I made in, quite consciously, allowing for a gigantic incentive to exist for capture by “the usual suspects”:

What Nick Szabo has called “The Argument Surface” of legislating, adjudicating and regulating the multitudinous semi-private labs under the ultimate authority the Commerce Department would be dependent on the ongoing appointment of men like Lutnick – which is far from guaranteed. The Argument Surface is, like the cybersecurity Attack Surface, to be minimized if we are to have sustainable bureaucratic restraint. In this case, it is hard to “game” the definition of and therefore the accounting of patent royalties which is the sole authority for dispensation of that huge pot of gold. There just isn’t much Argument Surface for parasites to latch their suckers onto. Indeed, it is disappearingly small compared to your alternative.

I would much rather see Militia.Money supporting SpaceX Labs than Lutnick supporting Amazon Labs with the threat of anti-trust against Bezos, but given that Musk et al are dead-set against anything that smacks of “Unconditional Basic Income”, that’s just not in the cards despite Musk’s concerns about TFR. He has his limits, imposed by his handlers.

PS: I suppose I should point out that I was more than merely “around” during the breakup of Ma Bell and its consequences for Bell Laboratories – I was intimately involved with the defensive maneuvers by Bell Labs deployed by Ma Bell in the VIEWTRON project, to anticipate the internet becoming mass market. The guys from Bell Labs I worked with were hamstrung when they should have been spun-off into startups along with the breakup of Ma Bell into various carriers governed by interoperation standards.

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