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Was it a good idea to put a lazy ignorant arrogant idiot in control of the world's economy? - Lawyers Guns & Money
Klein: Did we just have a global economic crisis created by some DOGE interns asking ChatGPT how to calculate tariffs? Two, if that’s what these systems — which I’m guessing are trained on the output of what all economists writing online say you should do — is there something to it? . . .
Krugman: This is part of the problem with what we’re calling A.I., with large language models. They pick up what’s out there without necessarily being able to discriminate what is sensible and what is not.
There’s certainly no paper I would imagine in any economics journal saying: Do this. Maybe some people out there are saying something like this. But it really is not something you would recommend, if you know anything about how trade works — which ChatGPT does not. So it really is weird that it would come up with this.
I mean it’s pretty clear what happened here is that some minions ran some AI queries about different ways to calculate tariff regimes, got back total garbage, because that’s what you get from the LLMs when you ask a difficult technical question, and presented this total garbage to Trump as an option, because the minions are also lazy and stupid and ignorant. The world economy is being wrecked because lazy, stupid, ignorant people “do their own research” in lazy, stupid, and ignorant ways.
Krugman: This is part of the problem with what we’re calling A.I., with large language models. They pick up what’s out there without necessarily being able to discriminate what is sensible and what is not.
There’s certainly no paper I would imagine in any economics journal saying: Do this. Maybe some people out there are saying something like this. But it really is not something you would recommend, if you know anything about how trade works — which ChatGPT does not. So it really is weird that it would come up with this.
I mean it’s pretty clear what happened here is that some minions ran some AI queries about different ways to calculate tariff regimes, got back total garbage, because that’s what you get from the LLMs when you ask a difficult technical question, and presented this total garbage to Trump as an option, because the minions are also lazy and stupid and ignorant. The world economy is being wrecked because lazy, stupid, ignorant people “do their own research” in lazy, stupid, and ignorant ways.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/04/was-it-a-good-idea-to-put-a-lazy-ignorant-arrogant-idiot-in-control-of-the-worlds-economy
