I don't find this compelling. The prompt they're giving is designed to produce that formula. Doesn't seem like you'd get that out of it unless you were reverse engineering the outcome.
It has a trade deficit with the US. Several years ago, Brazilian farmers complained about farm subsidies in the US, Brazil threatened retaliation and then... the Brazilian farmers got the subsidies from a US farm bill.
Understood. The USA runs a surplus with Brazil (presumably in subsidized AG) but you still won't be able to sell a piece of electronics there without incurring o costo brasilero.
Everything's going to get harder and more expensive.
Florida is the largest trading partner of Brazil in the States. I think it's more luxury goods than subsidized AG. Anyway, the biggest victim of those Brazilian tariffs are Brazilians. I don't know why anyone would want to copy this model.
If this is the root cause, it also likely means NO ONE CHECKED IF THIS WAS RIGHT OR SOUND ECONOMICS. Just a complete abdication of duty that is already causing wide-scale harm.
For anyone reading this, I simply cannot stress enough that even if genAI *looks* right this does NOT mean it *is* right
I know this isn’t the point of the graph, but it makes me feel extra sad for Australia, this little outlier actually importing more, still slapped with a tariff. 😢
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Large domino: the second coming of Smoot-Hawley
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/01/17/263101422/why-u-s-taxpayers-started-and-stopped-paying-brazilian-cotton-farmers
Everything's going to get harder and more expensive.
https://bsky.app/profile/dansinker.com/post/3llunnyfeoj2v
For anyone reading this, I simply cannot stress enough that even if genAI *looks* right this does NOT mean it *is* right
Also oh my god they’re so lazy and stupid.
They probably got annoyed they had to stop tweeting and playing CoD to come up with something.