I mean, in what other way would he do it, than the single dumbest way imaginable?
Dementia Don strikes again!
Fuck all of them.
AI industry is the enemy, they own (they have a priority rier on the joint leasins of our politicians,) and don’t believe for a minute the prez isn’t going to do everything they want before it’s over.
Prez is the LLM model companies’ bitch.
“Guys, stock market is not going up much anymore and we aren’t making money.”
“OK fine, short the tech stocks and I will scare the markets with some random threat that may or may not happen some time in the future.”
Starts talking about tax on data centers. Market starts to go down.
“Thanks, appreciate it”
Trump is finally waking up to the deep, bipartisan unpopularity of AI and AI datacentres. Aside: the “single dumbest way imaginable” is the GOP brand.
He simply cannot do anything but in the dumbest way.
Don’t worry, TACO.
While I’m sure the end result will be worse for us in a lot of other ways, one thing i found oddly positive is how his stupid decisions are going to fuck things up:
Most absurdly, given the priorities of Trump’s AI Action Plan, that tariff approach would cost the US about $90 billion annually in GDP losses and cause about 20 percent of data center projects planned through 2030 to be delayed or canceled
Trump is literally demented but the ghouls around him are not.
The plan is plainly obvious.
The big guys will bribe him and get exceptions which means their competition who can’t pay are at a detriment.
Trump gets bribes.
They both juice the market knowing the above.
That’s a good point. Those 20% of data centers getting cancelled were probably planned by the smaller companies i suppose…
Or the bigger ones plan on buying their supplies
Good, let them sleep in the bed they’ve made for once
AI industry says
I don’t care.
They funded his campaign. Serves them right.
AI industry says
Aww, did a wittle wepard eat your pwecious wittle face off?
Right! It seems like a half ass attempt at improving PR too
Yay I finally get to make a “both sides are awful” argument and be right
Everything trump does is done in the single dumbest way imaginable.
Not necessarily - he isn’t bright enough to be that consistent. Sometimes he does something okay like a blind man playing darts will occasionally hit the dartboard.
I actually take that back. Everything trump does is done in the single most evil way imaginable. It’s just that evil to these extremes is also really really dumb.
Name one example?
Closing the strait of Hormuz has done a lot to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles.
I don’t think it having some upside makes it a good/okay thing… Still seems pretty stupid and net negative.
He hasn’t name the Earth into Planet America. Yet…
“All it takes is a pen.”
Exactly, what did they expect?
Has the AI industry tried bribing him more? That usually does the trick.
My bet is on exactly that being the plan. Stocks go down, tech companies pay to bribe him, next Tuesday a reversal of tariff plans, stocks go up, rich people make more money. Rinse, repeat
Trump shitting on the AI industry has a certain poetry about it
It would be so fucking funny if Trumped crashed the AI “industry”
Would be great if it was just the AI industry, but it’s simply expanding what tech is subject to tariffs, so its the people that pay the price. Couldn’t afford that RAM already, so I guess it doesn’t matter right?
Epstein class when they’re raking it in:
“This is amazing”.
Epstein class when you try and take a small portion of their wealth away:
“This is terrible and I hate it.”
(PS. I hate Trump but this is essentially what’s happening here)
I’m not sure how higher tech prices for you and I are a good thing, but sure. Because that’s what is going to happen here, it’s simply expanding tariffs on more items.
Where did they suggest that they thought that it was a good thing? Mind the quotation marks
Have you read the comments in the thread, everyone is suggesting this is a great thing.
That’s… Not what replies are for…
higher tech prices for you and I
Not for me. You know some of us don’t live in US, right?
And I wasn’t passing comment on whether or not it was a good thing. I merely pointed out that the reason the tech bros were upset was the fact they were being taxed.
Not sure if you haven’t noticed, but go try to by tech right now. Ask Apple how much they are raising prices regardless of where it’s being sold at. Tariffs in the US absolutely will and do harm global prices, and you’d be completely out of touch to not think that. But thanks for the ‘hurr hurr I am not from the US’ excuse.
But thanks for the ‘hurr hurr I am not from the US’ excuse
Its not an excuse, I’m not American. I live nowhere near US, thankfully. I’m not even adjacent. Why would I be subject to tarrifs applied to goods imported to the US?
And FYI the current (global) price of tech is because of the rapid expansion of datacenter compute. Fuck all to do with tarrifs.
It’s not at all what’s happening here.
Hes seen a lot of money and he wants it.
He must be lying awake at night furiously trying to figure out how to get a cut of anthropics $30T they definitely have.
