> Dread Pirate Bezos That's worth at least 100 votes! To extend your excellent summary of office automation, you can think of most government functions as a m

> Dread Pirate Bezos That's worth at least 100 votes! To extend your excellent summary of office automation, you can think of most government functions as a manually operated AI. There are piles of rules and regulations to administer, and that is ripe for automation. However, can you imagine the horror of, say, a machine efficient IRS? The only thing that makes a lot of the regulatory regime survivable is the inefficiency of the bureaucracy. A hyper efficient bureaucracy would be suffocating.