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jmeyer2k commented on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU   bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy... · Posted by u/belter
gruez · 9 months ago
>Elon has been using LLMs to fire government employees

Source?

jmeyer2k · 9 months ago
from Mike Johnson, about DOGE's use of algorithms: ""Elon has cracked the code. He is now inside the agencies. He’s created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data. And as he told me in his office, the data doesn’t lie. We’re going to be able to get the information."

My speculation, but it's very likely that one of those pieces of analyzed information was the 5 bullet points from each federal employee justifying their job.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/trum...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/federal-workers-agenci...

jmeyer2k commented on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU   bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy... · Posted by u/belter
gruez · 9 months ago
>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.

jmeyer2k · 9 months ago
I really don't think this is entirely spurious considering Elon has been using LLMs to fire government employees. It seems like a very plausible explanation for how they came up with this policy.
jmeyer2k commented on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU   bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy... · Posted by u/belter
zombiwoof · 9 months ago
I think the Trump Crime family shorted the market last week and made millions today and this week
jmeyer2k · 9 months ago
Elon Musk directly benefits from this also, so...
jmeyer2k commented on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU   bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy... · Posted by u/belter
dragonwriter · 9 months ago
> Someone figured out that the new tariffs are just our trade deficit with that country divided by the country's exports.

Note that the White House has both (1) officially denied this, (2) provided the formula they assert was used as support for that denial; but the formula is exactly what they are denying but with two additional globally-constant elasticity factors in the divisor, however, those elasticity factors are 4 and 0.25, so...

jmeyer2k · 9 months ago
wait seriously? can you provide a source? That is some serious denial of reality by the administration
jmeyer2k commented on Reverse engineering of the formula used to generate the "reciprocal tariffs"   twitter.com/typesfast/sta... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
jmeyer2k · 9 months ago
Funny that this is the exact calculation that ChatGPT suggests. Seems like another genius Musk idea. Madagascar definitely deserves 47% tariffs on US imports.

https://xcancel.com/krishnanrohit/status/1907587352157106292

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jmeyer2k commented on I Met Paul Graham Once   okayfail.com/2025/i-met-p... · Posted by u/DamonHD
wastle · a year ago
If it's just a word and makes no difference then there should be no issue with using "he" to refer to any and all individuals of the male sex.
jmeyer2k · a year ago
Must be hard to have to deal with that, I'm so sorry you have to use a different word when referring to someone.

It's obviously much harder for you to use a different pronoun than for them to have their entire gender identity invalidated. Would you like for people to misgender you constantly and purposefully?

Your life must be so hard. I feel bad for you to have to use a different word to refer to someone. Maybe have some basic decency and respect for others?

jmeyer2k commented on I Met Paul Graham Once   okayfail.com/2025/i-met-p... · Posted by u/DamonHD
jmeyer2k · a year ago
Genuinely, how hard for you is it to call a person what they want to be called. What difference does gender make in the workplace even?

I understand it's hard for you to use different pronouns, but it's probably much harder for the person who feels like they don't identify with their gender assigned at birth.

> Requiring me to call someone who was born with a penis, and who has sired children a "she" is telling me to say that 2 + 2 = 5.

It's more like someone telling you to call them John and you call them Tyler instead. It's literally just a word.

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Radarr_Skeptic · a year ago
How do you protect yourself from the legal issues? Do you route it though proxies and trust that they won't snitch on you?
jmeyer2k · a year ago
seedbox + syncthing, downloads quickly to a seedbox, syncs locally encrypted, and deletes the torrent at the end
jmeyer2k commented on OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning   futurism.com/the-byte/ope... · Posted by u/EgoIncarnate
ericlewis · a year ago
If you are using the user attribution with OpenAI (as you should) then they will block that users id and the rest of your app will be fine.
jmeyer2k · a year ago
Which is itself a fun attack vector to bypass OpenAI's bans for asking about CoT then :)

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