[FRIAM] Future Generating Machines...

[Marcus Daniels]

For example, in spite of the billions spent on the NIH we had the fantastic public health failure of COVID-19.  

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That's a bold assertion. I'd argue that any surviving bureaucracy works *most* of the time, almost by definition. Of course, *new* bureaucracies probably fail most of the time. Then it would be important to be able to talk about bureaucratic novelty. E.g. the ACA (ObamaCare) was not a *new* bureacracy. And it didn't really fail. There were various stalls and hiccups. Now that that bureaucracy is up and running, it's "working" ... maybe not optimally. But optimality is persnickety.

In any case, only data would resolve the disagreement. And in order to gather data, you'd have to be explicit about measuring "work", as well as novelty and bureaucracy.

On 3/29/21 9:41 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
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> Bureaucracies barely work most of the time.

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