I think this can be true, but I don’t think it needs to be true:
“I expect that a lot of regulation about what you can and can’t do stops being enforceable once the development is happening in the context of the government performing it.”
I suspect that if the government is running the at-all-costs-top-national-priority Project, you will see some regulations stop being enforceable. However, we also live in a world where you can easily find many instances of government officials complaining in their memoirs that laws and regulations prevented them from being able to go as fast or as freely as they’d want on top-priority national security issues. (For example, DoD officials even after 9-11 famously complained that “the lawyers” restricted them too much on top-priority counterterrorism stuff.)
Yes, this is a good point. We need a more granular model than a binary ‘all the same laws will apply to high priority national defense projects as apply to tech companies’ versus ‘no laws at all will apply’.
I think this can be true, but I don’t think it needs to be true:
I suspect that if the government is running the at-all-costs-top-national-priority Project, you will see some regulations stop being enforceable. However, we also live in a world where you can easily find many instances of government officials complaining in their memoirs that laws and regulations prevented them from being able to go as fast or as freely as they’d want on top-priority national security issues. (For example, DoD officials even after 9-11 famously complained that “the lawyers” restricted them too much on top-priority counterterrorism stuff.)
Yes, this is a good point. We need a more granular model than a binary ‘all the same laws will apply to high priority national defense projects as apply to tech companies’ versus ‘no laws at all will apply’.