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cm0002 @lemmy.world

3d ago

It's Greek to me

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Jordan117 @lemmy.world

3d ago

It's Greek to me

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I'm not a mathematician. Can anyone explain where the 4 and 1/4 are noted to have those letters as representation?
Edit: nevermind. Found it. It's on their damn website
- WTF is that nonsense academia babble? This genuinely might have come from an LLM.
  “To calculate reciprocal tariffs, import and export data from U.S. Census Bureau for 2024.”
  It’s not even a complete sentence. Whatever wrote that is treating “import” and “export” in the dependent clause as verbs instead of adjectives.
  
  It literally did come from an LLM. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-tariffs-chatgpt-2055203
  
  The whole thing is nonsensical. Kinda crazy something that stupid has such an impact on the world
- Wow. Thanks for posting the link. I had to look at it myself haha. How dumb do they think people are?
  
  It worked. They think people are dumb because they are dumb. Or too busy to care, which is functionally identical in real effect.
- That's insanely hilarious
- As kids say these days, IJBOL

What a perfect demonstration of the difference between the aesthetics of science and the substance of science.

God this is so dumb.

So the tarifs they say other countries were imposing on the us was just the trade deficit?
- Yup, sounds like the other countries "tariffs against America" were really just Drump complaining that they weren't buying as much as he thinks they should lol
  
  Yep. Been saying this for months now.
  He literally, fundamentally, does not understand the concept of a trade deficit... nor a tariff... and he has surrounded himself with people too stupid and too sycophantic to be able to disagree.
  
  I genuinely think turd is not able to understand what a trade deficit is. He probably just saw the minus sign and the word negative and thought right, let’s see about this
- Their reasoning:
  If we have a trade deficit, that is because they're imposing barriers on us! Therefore if the trade deficit is of 50% it's equivalent to a 50% tariff!
  This is not just Donald trump math. This is being done by actual people with economics backgrounds. Some might even have PhDs
  
  You think Trump and the Republicans are actually hiring or listening to real economists?
  If there are any on staff they're definitely there just for looks, cause even at the college level this would be considered beyond stupid.
- Specifically the goods trade deficit, not including services. The US tends to import more goods and export more services like most advanced economies, but they're only counting the goods portion of it.

This is too good. Peak level of idiocracy
- Oh, honey, we're still far from the peak.
  
  You're holding it upside down, we're still far from the trough.
  
  Stonks
- peak? please hold America's collective beer

They actually have a trade surplus with Australia but we still ended up with 10% tariffs. So there's an absolute value missing from the formula. Or they simply didn't know what the "hyphen" on the calculator meant.
- It's minimum 10%, except for russia
- Maximum( (exports-imports)/imports, 0.1)
  
  Unless you are Russia.

Strongman dictators in developing countries who take power in a coup have more coherent economic policies than the USA.
I strongly suspect that ChatGPT was involved in this tariff plan in some way. Either generating the list of territories they'd be imposing tariffs on, or coming up with the formula, or who knows what. It's not that I don't think Trump's minions are stupid, it's that I think they're the kind of stupid that looks at ChatGPT like the apes in 2001 looked at the monolith.
- the list of territories they'd be imposing tariffs on
  Yeah, they basically used the list of Internet top level domains for "countries" instead of the State Department's own list of nations we have relationships with, or the UN member nations.
- Either generating the list of territories they'd be imposing tariffs on, or coming up with the formula, or who knows what
  There have been a couple new articles I seen that say basically that they used GenAI for the formula, probably Grok
  
  Like really? What articles?

i love how mathmemes is on lemmy.blahaj.zone btw

- Literally a rock could have done a better job, because the best action would have been to do nothing.
  Very little infuriates me more than people overcomplicating something when they could have done better by doing nothing.
  
  and the rock might have hit someone in the administration and kept them from doing anything else for a few days at least.

Electrolites!

Hilarious and sad if true, but where did those values of epsilon and phi come from?
- https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations
  
  I love how they cite multiple papers to justify setting phi at 0.25 but for epsilon it essentially just says 'it's 4'
  
  Oh my god I can't believe someone sat down and wrote all that using jargon they clearly don't understand. I love the references thrown in at the end to try to make it seem professional lmao
  
  Lol! Thanks for link

More clowning from the clown party. How anyone is surprised at this point would be beyond me.

You can simplify even more to exports/imports - 1

I'm dissociating. I can't

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