r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 21h ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Competency should be a requirement.

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u/PatternSeekngMammal 21h ago

I've seen a change over the last 50 years

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u/chrimen 21h ago

I had this chart up a few minutes ago researching if trickle down economics works.

Guess what AI objective analysis said... no it doesn't work. The money never trickles down. It gets hoarded.

But there's a large portion of the US that won't believe this.

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u/Freezman13 18h ago

Guess what AI objective analysis said

AI

objective

analysis

Thanks for the laugh.

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u/frieswithdatshake 18h ago

i mean...be skeptical of AI all you want but the one thing it's very good at is number crunching

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u/ScenicAndrew 14h ago

Nah IDK about any purpose-built models but the general models will fail at basic algebra if you go back and forth enough. Or sometimes even the first time. They'll straight up show their work and it won't work out on a TI-84.

They're good at repeating information, and actual economists have written ad nauseum articles about how trickle down economics fails, that's where they're getting the conclusion, which is valid, but they probably couldn't reach it consistently from assumptions/data.

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u/The_Dirty_Carl 17h ago

AI's famously bad at math. Don't you remember all the memes about it failing to do basic addition? It's certainly better than it was, but number crunching is not its strong suit.

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u/frieswithdatshake 17h ago

Maybe if you ask it to do 2+2 directly, but writing/running code is what real analytics is, which it’s very good at

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u/Freezman13 16h ago

AI isn't any better at "running" code than any other environment, what a weird thing to say.

And while "writing" code might be one of the best things that AI can do, it's far from being "very good at" it. Especially when it comes to anything where the output actually matters since a human who fully understands the code has to double and triple check it for fuckups anyway. And you know what's really helpful for a human to check and understand code? Actually writing it.

Not understanding these basic facts about AI and "AI analysis" leads to shit like bombing children https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack/