You can simplify even more to exports/imports - 1
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What a perfect demonstration of the difference between the aesthetics of science and the substance of science.
i love how mathmemes is on lemmy.blahaj.zone btw
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
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.
Yeah. After thinking about it, I sent it to a friend and said almost the exact same thing. Minus the busy part, but agreed, it's pretty much the same thing.
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.
The whole thing is nonsensical. Kinda crazy something that stupid has such an impact on the world
As kids say these days, IJBOL
That's insanely hilarious
More clowning from the clown party. How anyone is surprised at this point would be beyond me.
I'm dissociating. I can't
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.
Maximum( (exports-imports)/imports, 0.1)
Unless you are Russia.
If(country=Russia; 0, Maximum( (exports-imports)/imports, 0.1))
It's minimum 10%, except for 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?
https://lemmy.world/post/27735214 was the one I saw, but it is one of those articles "based on [social media] users
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