I think the intent, as stated, appears to match what you're saying. It's hard to ignore that there doesn't appear to be any display of critical thinking involved, though.

He wants recognition for quickly building simple tools (e.g. visual org chart) without the responsibility of what the tool was used for: to fire half a million people. Where are the efficiency gains in this? It's very telling that the interview that he got fired for included his praise that the government was actually more efficient than he expected.

Given all that, I can't take the writing as being all that sincere.

> AI can (theoretically) be a lot more fair in dealing with claims

Respectfully, no it can't. From a Western perspective, specifically American, and from an average middle-class person's perspective, specifically American, it only appears to be fair.

However, LLMs are a codification of internet and written content, largely by English speakers for English speakers. There are <400m people in the US and ~8b in the world. The bias tilt is insane. At the margins, weird things happen that you would be otherwise oblivious to unless you yourself come from the margins.

SCIF - Sensitive compartmented information facility. Officials are often not too far away from one (including in their own home), and can usually get to one in less than 5 minutes.

From my understanding, the BlackBerry thing was largely for personal use.

> The old 90s tech magazines like CPU magazine or PC World come to mind

Not to be too facetious, but, where -- uh -- are those magazines today? The internet changed things. Being that hyper-focused on a topic makes for building a good niche, but maybe not a good business.

I understand the extreme aversion to politics here, and mostly agree, but this story talks specifically about Y Combinator's Little Tech Summit. It's hardly off-topic given the context.