So it's increasingly looking like the current occupants of the executive branch have been using off-the-shelf LLM chatbot "AI" to figure out how to set and apply tariffs, and fuck knows what other aspects of policy. In related news, I'm really seriously considering taking up smoking again. - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

wolvendamien.bsky.social • 58 days ago

So it's increasingly looking like the current occupants of the executive branch have been using off-the-shelf LLM chatbot "AI" to figure out how to set and apply tariffs, and fuck knows what other aspects of policy.

In related news, I'm really seriously considering taking up smoking again.

Reposted from dan sinker

Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?

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in-prose93.bsky.social•58 days ago

Nah
You need a greenhouse or to become a horticulturist
Or plant some apple trees
Taking up smoking is not for you
Trust me
Buy a juicer to juice apples

hitchkitty.bsky.social•58 days ago

"Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit amphetamines."

keeptheskyblue.bsky.social•58 days ago

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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jessdee.bsky.social•58 days ago

I used to drink a lot in undergrad. I mean a LOT a lot...

Maybe I shouldn't have stopped...

desiabstrusity.bsky.social•58 days ago

I skipped straight past the vape and went right back to Newports, I'm sitting here staring at the wall and disassociating because every time I remember how fucking stupid they are I enter a frothing misanthropic rage and and light another up

ncweaver.skerry-tech.com•58 days ago

virginiaopossum.bsky.social•58 days ago

Came here to say this.

nutshellgulag.bsky.social•58 days ago

Smoking might be too expensive now. 💀

edwardolobo.bsky.social•58 days ago

I... have started again. Currently, occasional cigarillos but I'm noticing my frequency increasing...

wolvendamien.bsky.social•57 days ago

😞🖤

andreakuszewski.bsky.social•58 days ago

I have been saying that Elon Musk’s shitty AI has most likely been making every decision in the government since he’s been there. What jobs to eliminate, what agencies to eliminate, and what people to deport. His lazy fucking algorithms are deciding our fate.

jamescurcio.com•58 days ago

I've seen a lot of theories, also- https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations

But wherever they got it, it's fully incoherent

troynovaunt.bsky.social•58 days ago

This confirms my priors so hard I’m trying to wait to see if someone reports it out, but…WHEW

mhagenauer.bsky.social•57 days ago

https://www.theverge.com/news/642620/trump-tariffs-formula-ai-chatgpt-gemini-claude-grok

neonymousbosh.bsky.social•54 days ago

I would 100% believe it.

smilingrain.bsky.social•58 days ago

Big balls casually typing the nuclear codes into chatgpt to ask if it's time to hit the big red button yet

jasonpaul.bsky.social•58 days ago

May as well at this point.

sinshinelove.bsky.social•58 days ago

honestly, i've been dipping into the smoking off and on last few months and ya know... it doesn't help much

just makes me cough and my hands smell bad. and my clothes. and my breath. and then there's the chest pain...

anyway, enough about me. man, this shit is ROUGH. hang in there man, hang on

sinshinelove.bsky.social•58 days ago

i have a skin picking disorder and i'm doing an online therapy program for it and not only do the modules all start with breathing exercises but every single response from the therapist herself is like "have you considered breathing more?" but in like more better words cuz i'm pretty tired right now

sinshinelove.bsky.social•58 days ago

and of course i'm totally fucking that advice and the whole program off because i'm fixated on the toxic news cycle, yay

also avoiding a drug addiction to an anesthetic which believe you me looks more tempting all the time

but we got this

we don't need to harm ourselves over their shit, right

neonymousbosh.bsky.social•54 days ago

I started smoking again last summer. It doesn’t help.

strangetree.emilydare.net•58 days ago

Same. Not sure what exactly I'm going to take up smoking, but jesus tapdancing christ.

seraphinamaurer.bsky.social•58 days ago

I know people are stressed because of my allergy to cannabis. Last year I had three cannabis (I'm in CA, it's legal) exposures in my apt complex. Just this year so far I have had twelve pot exposures in my apt complex - mostly different neighbors too except from one unit that are regular smokers.

wolvendamien.bsky.social•58 days ago

oh that is rough :(

seraphinamaurer.bsky.social•58 days ago

It's not great for me, but I can hardly blame them. I'm stressed too but all this chaos and rampant destruction.

makam.bsky.social•58 days ago

It's not one of the LLMs that doesn't know how many Rs there are in strawberry, is it? Or the ones that just fabricate fake academic references? Or what about the ones that can't solve quadratic equations? https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/02/why-is-chatgpt-so-bad-at-math/

sophienotemily.bsky.social•58 days ago

I can't believe we managed to invent computers that are bad at math. we're so unserious

antagonic.bsky.social•58 days ago

well, that's all of them, so yes

kbneal.bsky.social•58 days ago

No words...

drgoon.bsky.social•58 days ago

If you had any, they would be used to build a model.

kateelliottsff.bsky.social•58 days ago

I need to buy more ice cream

gleebix.bsky.social•58 days ago

sam altman should be