Real reason for Elon's email request

[praguehawk]

Is to get a list of tasks that are being performed by employees. He will use that data to then determine how to automate a vast swath of the work using one of his companies. Is that a valid way to go about saving the government and tax payers money? I'm not sure it is horrible from a goal perspective. It does however suck from an honesty and human perspective.

 

[desihawk]

Is to get a list of tasks that are being performed by employees. He will use that data to then determine how to automate a vast swath of the work using one of his companies. Is that a valid way to go about saving the government and tax payers money? I'm not sure it is horrible from a goal perspective. It does however suck from an honesty and human perspective.

i think you are onto something. also a stream of timely and relevant updates across domains from millions of employees has to be a treasure trove for a llm like grok to ingest.

 

[ericram]

It's all about control, power and money.

 

[Moral]

I had an overnight at the VA last night and my nurses ended up bringing up that they had to fill it out the stupid email. They weren't too happy. Pretty bold of them to bring it up to a vet considering how many are maga dumbasses. So props to them.

 

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

Is to get a list of tasks that are being performed by employees. He will use that data to then determine how to automate a vast swath of the work using one of his companies. Is that a valid way to go about saving the government and tax payers money? I'm not sure it is horrible from a goal perspective. It does however suck from an honesty and human perspective.

Could you be more specific?

None of his businesses would directly replace the roles of the Federal agencies. Not even SpaceX. They wouldn’t replace NASA, they have different goals entirely. SpaceX is simply a service provider for them.

 

[Hans81]

Is to get a list of tasks that are being performed by employees. He will use that data to then determine how to automate a vast swath of the work using one of his companies. Is that a valid way to go about saving the government and tax payers money? I'm not sure it is horrible from a goal perspective. It does however suck from an honesty and human perspective.

lol…it’s simply to find out if all gov’t workers are actually reading their e-mail. 😉

 

[praguehawk]

Could you be more specific?

None of his businesses would directly replace the roles of the Federal agencies. Not even SpaceX. They wouldn’t replace NASA, they have different goals entirely. SpaceX is simply a service provider for them.

He is in the AI business in multiple companies. Zero doubt he could spin it up or off of one of those. He would get paid to automate whatever those federal workers are doing for tasks.