Comment by MaxHoppersGhost
7 days ago
LLMs are basically just good at sourcing ideas from the internet. Me thinks this just means that this tariff idea exists on the internet, especially since grok, chatgpt, etc all come up with the same idea. We used to not have income taxes and funded the govt with tariffs so this probably isn't a new concept despite media outlets pretending like it is.
It's good at compressing information from the internet, usually not losslessly.
Are you implying there is a very small chance that if someone posted in 2018 reddit "We should tariff Algeria at 35% because X", the LLM that the administration may have used would have agreed with random redditor?
> Me thinks this just means that this tariff idea exists on the internet
Probably from some random genius on reddit.