Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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If AI eliminates 30-50% of the non-productive people state and federal level then it isn't a bubble and the hype is justified. What will happen is people will come to work and just talk, gossip or play on their phones for 30-50% more the their time.
For example at LANL and LLNL there is simply no metric for efficiency however their is metric for spending money and growth. Most metrics, many which have been discussed on this blog have shown the labs are becoming less efficient so the entire culture at the NNSA labs is at odds with the point of AI.
LLNS, has a high resolution employee ranking system, with poor resolution. Thousands of LLNS management people-hours $$$ are spent EVERY year on this process. It would be more efficient and accurate to revert back pure rank groups, and reduce the number of managers, but that won’t happen because the ranking system as is, is too lucrative for the rankers.