The problem is, if you ask a economist how they would implement sweeping tariffs, steep across the board, the answer would be "Please don't." It's such a stupid fucking idea, every answer is wrong.
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They probably also wouldn't set a specific tariff for an uninhabited island even if they did it under protest
Perfectly illustratibg how current "Ai" maybe an OK assistant to a trained professional for low level, mundane tasks... It cannot get close to replace the actual trained professional
Then how is any new low level intern supposed to become a trained professional?? 🪿 🪿
FuckAI
Oh I think AI is a complete waste of wattage (at least all these chatbots and LLMs)... I am just pointing out how it is mostly hot air and not worth any significant investment other than maybe more R&D to find an OK use for it
They also asked ChatGPT about economists, and after conducting an exhaustive study on reddit and Twitter it reported back that everyone agrees economists are bad, mean, and wrong, and that you should just do what you think is best and everything will turn out fine, the same way it always has.
I think that if the AI had been running the country, it wouldn't have suggested crashing the American economy and potentially that of the rest of the world in the first place, but if you ask it stupid questions then you'll get stupid answers.
You seem to think AI understands anything. It literally does not understand anything.
It understands relationships between concepts, which is something that can be learned from reading text even without firsthand experience of the world. "Tariffs" is associated with "recession" and "recession" is associated with "bad".
Sort of. It understands "0.0023" is associated with "0.0037" and "0.0037" is associated with "0.15532"
"Tariffs" is associated with "recession" and "recession" is associated with "bad".
Nailed it. ChatGPT gave a pretty balanced definition, but at least it popped out "bad".
And if you put in Smoot-Hawley:
Ah, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act — one of the most infamous tariff laws in U.S. history. It's a textbook case of how tariffs can go very wrong.
These people responding think you think AI is thinking. See, because they're smarter than you! This place fucking annoys hell out of me sometimes, just like old reddit. At least we're not run over with bots and fascists.
It's not the lighter's fault if someone uses it to burn down a forest. Especially if the lighter is yelling the whole time that it's a bad idea to burn down the forest!
But it would be partly the lighters fault if it used up more power and water than most countries do.
No? A lighter is a tool, it has no agency and as such can not carry blame. You can argue that the fault lies partly in the lap of the lighter's creator, but not the lighter itself.
But isn't fossil fuel just a tool that generates power when ignited? Fossil fuels aren't inherently bad, just like the lighter isn't. But the fossil fuels are being used in an unbalanced way, driven by profit.
Fossil fuels aren't to blame, it's capitalism. But fossil girls are partly at fault here for sure
You're assuming that crashing the economy wasn't what it was asked how to do.
That's probably how the penguins got included.
Something that I'd read as a kid in a work of fiction and would think is cool is actually dogshit in practice. It's no wonder I'm so pessimistic.