1. Elect Claude.

2. Prompt Claude for a balanced budget.

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??? Profit!

kingstnap 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've tried this ~2 months ago with GPT pro and lost the chat. Basically assumming a scenario where it has technocratic control over the budget and it has to manage it.

It really didn't come up with anything crazy. It was basically cutting spending and raising and creating new taxes. With the plan being to spread the pain based on tolerability and medium to long term sustainability. With actions like a fedral consumption tax with planned rebates depending on household wealth.

Its also tried to be careful around things that might create long term problems like dramatic education cuts and what not.

The reforms it gives are altogether pretty numerically radical but its not radical in the internet way where its a polarized solution. It's not a reddit style eat the rich or a business trickle down wealth solution.

	▲	rrrrrrrrrrrryan an hour ago \| parent [-]
		These kinds of exercises are great thought experiments but a little bit useless if they're not grounded in political feasibility. The interesting reforms are the ones that are easy to sell to the general public with a 30 second elevator pitch, or a one paragraph comment online - even if the people that are currently in power might hate the idea. The fires of those ideas can be stoked, and if enough people get behind them, then those aspiring to greater political power will begin to adopt the ideas as part of their platforms.

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Havoc 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Paperclips are famously not that expensive to maintain

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ciupicri 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Isn't Anthropic on some sort of a blacklist?

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malshe an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

3. Prompt it to make no mistakes