But nonetheless, basically I’m not very afraid of the government because I don’t think it’s a throw warm bodies at the problem and I don’t think it’s a throw warm computers at the problem.

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Although I expect that this section of my analysis will not be without controversy, it appears to the author to also be an important piece of data to be explained that human science and engineering seem to scale over time better than over population—an extra decade seems much more valuable than adding warm bodies.

Since I'm currently a software engineer for the DoD, I think I have a little bit of insight into this :)

Currently, the government is moving away from throw-more-bodies solutions to improve the engineering process overall type of solution. Throwing more bodies was discovered to be cost inefficient and since the budget of the DoD has been shrinking, they're looking for more cost effective acquisition strategies.

I don't work anywhere near any AI-focused departments, so I don't know what the current state of things would be in that area. But I would assume that they're moving towards better process improvement just like we are. As an anecdote, our organization was passed up on the opportunity to work on a project because a "competitor" organization (within the DoD) had a higher CMMI level than we do. So process improvement is definitely seems to be a big focus in the DoD.