Posted on 03/01/2024 1:35:56 PM PST by Enterprise
I believe that is Grog, not Grok.
As an aside, I’m pretty sure the word “grok” originated with Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land”.
Trump, Musk, 'Swami and others...all on the same team.
I knew I liked this Musk guy for some reason. Now I hope he stays alive.
Thousands of little elements in a thousand-page bill. Summarize it too succinctly and you’ll miss the devil in the details.
Square peg inside a round Beltway.
More on regulations...
One big problem is that Congress passes legislation all the time but it takes forever to update the regulations to adjust to new legislation.
At any given time large chunks of the regulations are in conflict with or at least not in full conformance with existing statutes.
New regulations require a bunch of attorneys and agency subject matter experts to draft them—if those folks are busy with other duties then it takes as long as it takes.
Then the draft has to go up the chain of command to senior managers. The problem there is that this is not like a corporation. The senior managers are political appointees who are usually not at all familiar with the gritty details of the regulations. They ask stupid questions, raise irrelevant issues, muddy the waters and generally just delay the process with no particular benefit.
After they sign off the draft regulations go out for public comment. This can take months particularly if there are a lot of comments. Outside attorneys for an industry or other lobbying group bill by the hour while they tear the proposed regulations to shreds. These attorneys often have more expertise on the topic than anybody inside the particular agency. That is why they are paid big bucks. There are thousands of these attorneys working as lobbyists/experts in metro DC.
Back and forth it goes—senior management often has to referee—and then finally the regulations are issued.
It can easily be two years after legislation is enacted.
Meanwhile if the lobbyists still have bones to pick they may take the agency to court and duke it out there.
Then Congress changes the law and the process starts all over again.
(Meanwhile there is a bunch of old junk still in the regulations that was not important enough to waste time trying to delete but just muddies the waters.)
It is a mess.
Wow, that is the BEST application of AI I’ve heard of.
Of course, Congress doesn’t give a sh1t what we think or discover about their shenanigans. “Oh yeah? Whadda ya gonna do ‘bout it?”
How soon will Congress deploy the Legislatron 3000 AI to hide pork and obfuscate personal favors in laws a thousand times more efficiently than mere human staffers could do?
Grking or to Grok is a form meditation in a Ray Bradbury Scifi Novel
It’s like searching X-rays for cancer. Great use for AI
Calm down folks. AI is only a human written computer program.
OMG - this would be wonderful.
As is the only bills most congresscritters read are the ones that benefit them personally - all the new perks for elected ‘officials’...
Elon’s changing the world for the better.
The term “grok” is probably best explained by the Greek word “ginóskó.”
I was just going to to write this.
If you don’t know the existing law, verbatim, you have no idea what is being amended, changed, or deleted.
Reading that stuff is like reading a programming language that you don’t know…but it’s kind of familiar.
I imagine the AI system will make those links, and summarize what is “Changing”.
I think just as important it would summarize when stuff is changed, and when it changes again (like the Trump tax cuts that are looming over our heads again.)
Now if we could just get the politicians to read it.
Making a huge law computer searchable will definitely help in allowing it to be understood. I know someone who tried to read the Obamacare bill. It was so full of references to other subsections of sections of other laws, etc. that it was impossible to read. Perhaps some AI would be able to do that in fast way.
"Elon Musk says Grok will soon be able to read the omnibus bills Congress likes to make and summarize them so politicians can't hide stuff from us"
Using Grok to flag unconstitutional parts of omnibus bills, especially unconstitutional spending, is probably to much to ask for.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“ If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
From the congressional record:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
A basic question that Grok needs to answer is this. How many omnibus spending bills are needed to efficiently run the peacetime US Mail Service, one of the very few powers that the states have expressly constitutional given to Congress to dictate domestic policy? (Most federal domestic policy is based on stolen state powers imo.)
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
I say none, no omnibus spending bills needed. (I answered the question for Grok, so Grok is off the hook.)
Block grant money to the states.
Return most of DC to Maryland.
“Okay, but how much phony stuff is Grok AI going to make up?”
Probably not as much fake stuff as we see posted here on FR.
And, we can trust this one...how?
Depends on WHO PROGRAMS GROK!
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