{"id":15502,"date":"2025-04-13T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=15502"},"modified":"2025-04-13T09:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T15:27:21","slug":"4-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=15502","title":{"rendered":"4.13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Edward Feser wrote a critique of President Trump\u2019s new tariffs and his trade policy. A reader asked ChatGPT to respond to his critique as if it was me. And apparently AI now does non-fiction nearly as well as it does fiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Feser\u2019s Overemphasis on Prudential Moderation over Existential Necessity<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Vox Day might begin by pointing out that Feser\u2019s argument is essentially one of technocratic prudence\u2014tariffs might be useful in moderation, if well-targeted, in the right economic climate, with good timing, and clear justification. Vox would call this academic dithering in the face of civilizational crisis. From his view, America is not merely suffering a mild imbalance of trade\u2014it is being gutted by decades of globalist betrayal that have systematically offshored its manufacturing capacity, hollowed out its industrial base, and turned its working class into wage-serfs of the service economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Forget \u201cincrementally,\u201d it\u2019s got to be exploded. Would more of the same and a slow death be better<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \nIn the absence of a more senior officer, the surrender was accepted by Colonel B\u00f9i T\u00edn, a journalist who many years earlier had witnessed the departure of the French from Hanoi<\/a>. B\u00f9i T\u00edn would eventually become disillusioned with the new order. He was destined to end his days in Paris, an exile from his homeland. His memoir Following Ho Chi Minh is one of the very few inside accounts of life in the upper reaches of the secretive Vietnamese Communist party.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cThe threat to democracy, indeed the existential<\/a> threat to democracy, is the unelected bureaucracy of lifetime tenured civil servants who believe they answer to no one, who believe they can do whatever they want without consequence, who believe they can set their own agenda no matter what Americans vote for.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Final conclusion be: Some tariff be permanent, much America company move back. Trump say he victory. China increase better relation with other Asia countrys for increase trade to make up for lost America trade, China also cheat and steal less. China reputation enhance. Then Xijinping say he victory<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Edward Feser wrote a critique of President Trump\u2019s new tariffs and his trade policy. A reader asked ChatGPT to respond to his critique as if it was me. And apparently AI now does non-fiction nearly as well as it does fiction. Vox Day might begin by pointing out that Feser\u2019s argument is essentially one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15502"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15507,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502\/revisions\/15507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}