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(As the local cops drag me out of the ZBA meeting) “None of you have read Fukuyama, clearly,”

The collapse of the hiring system under the weight of AI applications is bad actually – for identical reasons

Hayek is also good on this of course. "Impersonal rules >> executive discretion" is like the whole of the road to serfdom standing on one foot, the rest is commentary.

I'm reminded that sometimes analysts use patronage in this sense and it comes across euphemistically. No idea what to do about it, but thought crossed my mind

That's hysterical. But also, am I understanding it correctly? It seems like that's what Boston and SF are doing.

Communicating social capital and predicting someone's future social worth WRT employment is impossible without the context of their previous relationships

Which is also what's bad about the tech giants rejecting the whole idea of customer service: gmail is as important as a government agency and your only real option if something goes wrong, is the patronage network option — you gotta know somebody who knows somebody. It's Extremely Bad.