Appreciate the much more honest answer. And I get that point of view: europeans don’t care much about the war in Sudan for example.

I agreed that EU especially, should contribute more to the defense effort of Ukraine.

Not persuing that goal is repeating the same mistake: russia rearms and attacks again. It prolongs the war and causes more suffering.

Depends on your personal connections.

Aand, it’s gone.

the EU would contribute €50 billion with the rest pledged by “providers, investors and industry.”

Consider me old-fashioned, but that should be illegal

make our own production more competitive and enable better salaries overall.

That’s the topic of this post: due to it’s central steering EU became technologically (and in a few decades economically) irrelevant. It doesn’t know how to make 21st century things. Tarrifs don’t help with that problem, au contraire. Nor does a national social security system. The latter does make sure that everyone’s quality of life degrades about equally fast.

That I know, I live in Belgium.

I wonder what successful capitalisation of that would look like?

That’s something EU countries are better at than the US and on which it should capitalise

What does that look like?

Some things like image recognition, text classification, are way way easier using pretrained transformers.

As for generating code, I already used to spent a lot of time chasing bugs juniors made but can’t figure out. The process of making such bugs has now been automated.

That, I think, is a symptom not a cause.

The cause is societal: the EU thinks that innovation should come top down. By giving established corporations subsidies, and a large administration that steers everyone every step of the way. To make sure nobody does anything out of the ordinary.

That works if you want to improve car crash safety by 5%. But, ofcourse, that doesn’t work for true, novel ideas. Concensus being antagonistic to novelty.

And it’s not solely a “bad politicians” problem. A majority of Europeans are simply afraid of change, want their 9-to-5 job to look exactly the same for their whole life. The elected reflect their electorate.

Too bad the world changes regardless of you participating.

Some do, some don’t

Ah yes, politics as a driving force for technological innovation. This time it’ll work. 😒

A spectrum analyser?

Minesweeper

Is sous vide cooking?

Reheating is cooking. Not all cooking is reheating.

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