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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shut. It. Down.[/quote]

Amen!

The Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) is approximately 2,000 pages long, but when including agency supplements and specific rules, it can exceed 5,000 pages.

As of 2024, the Federal Register contained approximately 71,222 pages. This number can vary each year based on the volume of documents published.

The IRS tax code is approximately 6,871 pages long, and when including federal tax regulations and official guidance, the total can rise to about 75,000 pages.[/quote]

That doesn't happen in a vacuum.  It happens every time Congress takes some action.  Congress passes a law, then agencies need to figure out how to implement it, via rulemaking.  There's years and years and layers and layers and I honestly doubt Congress or others at this point are even able to make sense of much of it to understand what's already in it.

It's still baffling why, rather than trying to oppress federal workers and force them out, and cripple agencies with yet more arbitrary rules and redundant oversight over expenditures greater than $100k, that DOGE didn't use AI to go through the FAR and other regulatory documents to find areas of redundancy, inconsistency, and so on to get it cleaned up and simplified?[/quote]

Because AI isn't up to the job. Yet. It's creative and insightful, but it doesn't have the 100% reliability you need to correctly assess such texts.[/quote]

No and I didn't say to have AI just spit out a clean version.  Nobody does that - or if they are, they are fools who don't understand AI. But AI definitely could be used to flag sections for redundancy and inconsistency and extraneous complexity and make suggestions, for a human subject matter expert to review.  [/quote]

Yes, I agree it could do that. [/quote]

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