Being smart is a qualification.

There is no such thing as "being smart". You can be arbitrarily good at some things, and arbitrarily bad at anything else. Even the greatest physicists can have laughably naive philosophical positions. Linus Paulding, one of the greatest minds in chemistry in history, was convinced that you can cure virtually any disease with a large enough dose of vitamin C. Expertise, even the extreme peak, in one field doesn't give you expertise of any kind in another field.

This is factually wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient

IQ is a grift. It is not a measure of intelligence, but "not stupidity".

Any score over 100 means no discernable difference in intelligence. https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...

IQ is mostly BS. And even if it's not, it only measures the ability to learn, not the actual skills. What I wrote remains true: just because you have skills in one area (AI deciphering of hieroglyphics scroll), doesn't mean in any way whatsoever that you have skills for something entirely unrelated (administrative matters).

Well... there is also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease

Ho we got a random link to a irrelevant article.

Pack it up boys.

I'd rather have people who are smart with experience handling our inner government workings. ;P

Yes it does. He knows how to solve hard problems. Ending the vaste waste, fraud and abuse is a huge spagetti code problem.

To Actually fix the embedded structural problems of an established system requires at least as much wisdom as intelligence. So far I have not seen Elon and his young minions demonstrating deep levels of wisdom

You are being impressed by irrelevant credentials. This is what tools people into a sens of confidence while totally misplaced. he is not helping to solve hard problems or deal with corruption. He is aiding in destroying democracy and enabling corruption and collusion.

You have it backwards.

So would you say that the first step of detangling spaghetti code is to start deleting huge chunks of it without knowing what it does or why it was coded that way?

There is no control-z in physical systems, especially ones that rely on human constructs and tradition

This is not a code problem, and I guarantee none of these kids know COBOL

What a load of nonsense. Expertise in one field does not mean you're going to excel in a different field. There are plenty of people with relevant expertise and equal problem-solving abilities, but these traitors actively don't want them, because they aren't going to say and do what they want.

What would constitute qualifications in your view?

Advanced knowledge of the inner workings of governmental oversight, government funding, and the ability to understand what they are doing is illegal and dangerous.... Enough to know that whatever they have been promised is not worth the unintended consequences of their actions.

Pause any spending $X on a Foreign Nation is not aligned with making America Gooder.

The better question is why hasn't anyone done this before?