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Some think AI helped with the formula https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114271484597938775 https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114271484597938775
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Some think AI helped with the formula
https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114271484597938775 https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114271484597938775
- mateus1 2y agoThe takeaway from the X-poster being "it's good that they're using LLMs" is hilarious. Why praise the method if the end result is so bad?
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- croes 2y agoPerfection is just a bugfix away /s
- gruez 2y agoThe tariffs might be a bad idea, but this accusation is ridiculous. For a simple methodology like this, it's trivial to prompt engineer a LLM to produce the same response. It doesn't mean that that's how the administration came up with the policy, any more than a LLM getting the same (correct) solution as a student on an assignment means the student used a LLM on that assignment.
- Spivak 2y agoI think the accusation carries more weight than you're implying because while correct answers are all similar having two students give eerily similar wrong answers is often used as evidence for cheating. The fact that this announcement is, to put it generously, weird, and not how anyone in the real world actually implements tariffs points to this administration going with the formula from some undergrad econ textbook or econ blog they found and applying it to a spreadsheet. Maybe they got it from an LLM, maybe they didn't, but what matters is the college sophomore level of consideration of the individual tariffs.
- gruez 2y ago>Maybe they got it from an LLM, maybe they didn't, but what matters is the college sophomore level of consideration of the individual tariffs. Sounds like we're in agreement? The tariffs are badly thought out, but the "lol they got their policy from LLMs" accusation is entirely spurious.
- jmeyer2k 2y agoI really don't think this is entirely spurious considering Elon has been using LLMs to fire government employees. It seems like a very plausible explanation for how they came up with this policy.
- gruez 2y ago>Elon has been using LLMs to fire government employees Source?
- jmeyer2k 2y agofrom Mike Johnson, about DOGE's use of algorithms: ""Elon has cracked the code. He is now inside the agencies. He’s created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data. And as he told me in his office, the data doesn’t lie. We’re going to be able to get the information." My speculation, but it's very likely that one of those pieces of analyzed information was the 5 bullet points from each federal employee justifying their job. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/trump-france-emmanuel-macron-white-house-ukraine-tariffs-live-updates-rcna193386#rcrd73645 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/trum... https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/federal-workers-agencies-push-back-elon-musks-email-ultimatum-rcna193439 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/federal-workers-agenci...
- croes 2y agoIs Elon really that stupid? Just because doesn't lie doesn't mean we understand it correctly.
- croes 2y agoSeems like it's at least a plausible possibility for Paul Krugman https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-careless-stupidity-kill-the https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-careless-stupidity-k...