{"id":41894,"date":"2025-02-06T20:28:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T02:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41894"},"modified":"2025-02-06T20:28:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T02:28:39","slug":"when-its-inexperienced-its-well-weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/02\/06\/when-its-inexperienced-its-well-weak\/","title":{"rendered":"When It’s Inexperienced, It’s … Well, Weak"},"content":{"rendered":"

NPR<\/strong><\/em> reports<\/a> on a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the fake government department you may have heard of, and a loss from their staff:<\/p>\n

A staffer connected to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency resigned on Thursday after now-deleted racist social media posts were resurfaced. …<\/p>\n

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old software engineer, was working inside the Treasury Department to cut costs and root out fraud, as part\u00a0of Musk’s DOGE effort<\/a>. Elez was one of two temporary appointees at Treasury connected to DOGE who have been granted access to a highly sensitive Treasury system that processes trillions of dollars in payments every year. …<\/p>\n

“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” the account [associated with Elez] wrote in September. “Normalize Indian hate,” a separate post from that month read.<\/p>\n

In July of last year, the account posted: “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Uh huh.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You may have heard of this group that Mr Musk of Tesla, etc, brought to the party to disassemble the government. All youngsters. I didn’t think about this myself until this evening, when it occurred to me that not all people in the cited age range, which I seem to remember is 19-24, are fully neurologically wired.<\/p>\n

That is, such people are inclined to poor reasoning and weak adherence to moral norms; many are prone to grandstanding in their desire for attention. It appears Mr Elez managed to get Mr Musk’s attention.<\/p>\n

But I suspect not because of his racist views (although some impute racism to Mr Musk), or any sort of legendary computer skills.<\/p>\n

But because he hasn’t figured out how much this is a transgression of morality and ethics, systems set up to protect … himself<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The youth are often manipulated by older men precisely because of this vulnerability. Happens with women, too.<\/p>\n

Now, programmers are often libertarians, some because they really like the philosophy, thinking about former colleagues of mine … and some because they think it’s cool. Yes, there is a difference, and I bordered on the latter 30+ years ago. Libertarians do like to believe they’re more clever than the average bear, and that’s a lure into the sin of confirmation bias. Just read their writings.<\/p>\n

But they’re not. More clever, that is.<\/p>\n

So there’s a reason that many or all of Mr Musk’s DOGE team is so young, and it’s not because they’re clever. It’s because they’ll perform Mr Musk’s desires without objection.<\/p>\n

Or at least I think that’s quite likely.<\/p>\n

\n
<\/picture><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NPR reports on a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the fake government department you may have heard of, and a loss from their staff: A staffer connected to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency resigned on Thursday after now-deleted racist social media posts were resurfaced. … Marko Elez, a 25-year-old \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41900,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41894\/revisions\/41900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}