Andrew Sage

That's what they want to do.

That's a good way to put it, yeah.

Yeah.

I think that there's another thing we're saying here, too.

So David Graeber

argument about this where he makes an argument that I think is also very compelling that part of the decline in the rate of technological change has been the extent to which everyone who was trying to do this stuff is just increasingly dealing with more and more layers of bureaucracy instead of actually doing the thing they're trying to do.

And, you know, this is a huge problem in academia, where it's like, okay, so you have, you know, you're teaching in academia, but you're also spending, like, a quarter of your time trying to get another job.

You're spending another quarter of your time dealing with all of the unhinged whatever, like, accounting bullshit that your fucking supervisors have, like, or, like, university management has, like,

put upon you and this is and this is something that's also true for government researchers where there's just like this you know there's been this incredible increase in sort of the amount of bureaucracy they have to jump through it a lot like largely because of the right and because of all of the like weird shit they do where it's like they hate government funding so like ah everyone has to like justify their funding literally every 10 seconds and and i i think i think like that's like that's like one of the other angles of this and it's something that's only going to get worse because this administration is just fucking annihilating the entire basis of american science yeah

They're just killing it.

The damage that they've done to the pipeline of people that would produce these researchers, right?

With the ways that all suddenly like American science postdocs, just there's no money for it.

There's no money for grad students.

They're killing all of the pathways that would do this.

And then they're going, oh, the only solution is the fucking tech boondoggle we've created to the problems that we created by just annihilating the capacity to do science.

It sucks.

I hate them.

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