The 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.
I 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.
The 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.
I 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.
>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.
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Seems like it's at least a plausible possibility for Paul Krugman
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-careless-stupidity-k...
The 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?
Perfection is just a bugfix away /s