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I really don’t understand the EU.
While the US has Trump threatening Denmark’s sovereignty, threatening to pull out of NATO, making up lies about the EU being created to screw the US, have multiple US billionaires and his whole administration lobbying EU countries to degrade EU unity, the EU goes out in full bend-over mode to whatever the US wants.
Want every EU citizens Medical data? Go ahead. Want to regulate our industries? Why not. Want us to implement Chat Control? Fuck it, we’re all part of the same Epstein class anyway!
I see two factors here: a) the same "trends" that are happening in the US are happening here too, if to a lesser extent, and b) they've been riding the "USA our friend and partner" train for so long, they don't know how to get off.
It's not about class, it's about the EU falling back in tech.
Is there a EU alternative to Anthropic's Claude?
Because for Facebook, Google and such one can agree that these are not in everything beneficial, but there are also no EU companies like Intel, AMD, or EU companies like MS and Apple.
It just doesn't seem the EU (yes, taken together) is going a better path, it's just falling back.
And now a big change is happening, and whether it's a crash or a jump forward is unclear. Plenty of bets are that it's the latter.
It’s about the EU's fear of falling back in tech. Which I think is a dumb narrative.
And who pushes the hype that says AI is a must? Who profits the most? Certainly not the EU.
Fear of falling back, but there are no EU companies comparable to Intel, AMD, Apple and MS.
Nothing is certainly a must, but a technology allowing you to submit a project plan (not too detailed, like a school essay or something) and receive a working application (I'm still impressed by Claude) after about a few dozens corrections given, - that seems something more valuable that energy spent.
Similar with technologies allowing swarms of autonomous weapons to function, or really anything autonomous.
Need for perpetual connectivity is bad, but companies have to make money and control their product, AI is solving that. Fundamentally it's possible that models comparable to Claude Sonnet will run locally on smartphones 10-20 years from now.
The EU certainly doesn't profit from anything here, it's just that complacency sometimes turns just being slow into being obsolete, and then into being Opium Wars' China.
Considering how much energy that used, we're going to have to disagree there.
You really lost me there. Good Bye.