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smitty1e • today at 3:50 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

1. Elect Claude.

2. Prompt Claude for a balanced budget.

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??? Profit!


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kingstnap • today at 4:28 PM

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.

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Havoc • today at 4:12 PM

Paperclips are famously not that expensive to maintain

ciupicri • today at 4:36 PM

Isn't Anthropic on some sort of a blacklist?

malshe • today at 5:01 PM

3. Prompt it to make no mistakes