Truth and Lies are loaded words and you get caught in the black and white fallacy. I would say the administration is guilty of selective information, overstatement, and oversimplification in support of their dogmatic targeted outcome. And I would be an idiot to not see the same of the previous administration, albeit slower and less whiplash.

It all depends on your viewpoint. Republicans think Democrats screw up government for their world view, Democrats think the same of Republicans. That is how we have gotten to the mess we are in now. The reality is that neither party is "small government," and both parties support their pet spending. While I don't condone much that this administration is doing (really can only think of one thing), it is exactly what their party faithful have asked for.

Looking at the world in black and white terms will always lead to poor outcomes.

I used to have a similar bias. Now I am a member, spend safely >$5,000/year there, and I get it. I am also safely in the 1%. There are plenty of expensive things that are a good value, as well as staples.

...and when both do it you end up where we are today.

Marketing is likely one of the most vulnerable areas, but even there marketing needs are likely to expand to smaller businesses with less emphasis on it now. My old engineering company likely can loose 10% of staff as a few people that we have to handle overflow could be phased out. On the engineering side itself history has shown that the "easy" bottom 10% gets some automation, but there is no good way to address the balance, which actually ends up expanding. An example could be modeling multiple scenarios further into a project in order to maintain value engineering options or design for prefabrication.

Copy writing positions and responsibilities will shrink, but the time always ends up being taken by something else. Any really big changes are further out than a 5-year horizon.

It works today for a lot of jobs, at least as a force multiplier. In many cases though the process needs to be redesigned to simplify things for automation and AI.

I would be surprised if the reactor itself represents more than 10% of the cost of construction; there is a whole lot more to making this work (especially with highly enriched uranium).

Great theory, thanks.

The Defense division was the real money maker and splitting it off is what killed the consumer company. The thing that killed the buyout was the fear of an Alexa Vacuum Cleaner, not warehouse automation.

Then can you explain the increase in lead content; that was what surprised me. Calories come from carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
   

Why not just rename the device to Telescreen?

They were pretty wishy-washy about it and looking forward rather than saying "based on the performance of AI we need to get rid of all these superfulous positions."

More and more I am wondering if these AI "initiatives" are just an excuse to reduce headcount and figure things out later, rather than an actual commitment.

There was one Critical Mass in the late 90's that went on I-80 at the San Francisco end of the Bay Bridge.

Then you use the keypad. The only SPoF is power and the opener itself.