I've been the CTO of two companies, and I always look at the portfolio and ask the tough technical questions early. It makes hiring superfast and weeds out all the pretenders. I've made my best hires over random social media posts because I could tell they knew what they were doing and were trying to achieve things that aligns with what I need. Regular "HR-led" hiring starts in the wrong end with the "vibecheck" which of course all technical people will fail miserably.

Where is the liability?

it's important to know if they are leading by example.

They might pay a "fine" (bribe) to some court system somewhere to get away with it if it gets that far, but nobody will ever end up in jail for as long as the system is corrupt.

As long as someone is willing to pay (and in this case the US taxpayer unwillingly through the government), why should they even care?

It means that they are run by narcissists. It happens too often these days. I want to undo this trend with every fiber of my body.

"Genius admire simplicity, mediocrity admire complexity."

Most people are simple automatons with finite states in an FSM...

Why do you call probabilistic models for AI? Why are you ignoring physics, energy, and entropy?

My former narcissist cofounder used LOC written as a metric for my participation, and only me, nobody else in the company among the devs. He just hated me because I questioned his understanding of running a business, and I spent 4 years to build the tech the company was formed around, and also helped land the biggest paying client for.

Since it seems I am so protected by the general populace, I guess I can just show up unannounced?

At what point does this cease to be science and starts becoming alchemy? What is the cutoff point?

They seem to ignore common physics. I wonder how they can be enabled to continue to ignore the obvious dynamics behind alchemy.

It seems that idiots are on both sides now. VCs have proved to be completely out of touch with reality while their target audience is just fitting them like a glove. I call this the age of the big dumb.

Capitalism and communism are sadly two sides of the same coin.