E.U. reaches deal on landmark AI bill, racing ahead of U.S.
washingtonpost.comCongratulations to the EU on regulating other countries technological advances!
It's easy to be generous with other people's technological advancements.
I'm starting to think that the US senate is a feature and not a bug.
As Antonin Scalia (Supreme Court Justice) said to the US Senate ..."learning to love the gridlock"
"And I hear Americans saying this nowadays, and there's a lot of it going around. They talk about a "dysfunctional government" because there's disagreement.
And the Framers would have said, "Yes, that's exactly the way we set it up. We wanted this to be power contradicting power -- because the main ill that beset us" -- as Hamilton said in The Federalist when he talked about a separate Senate -- He said, "Yes, it seems inconvenient, but inasmuch as the main ill that besets us is an excess of legislation, it won't be so bad."
This is 1787 -- he didn't know what an excess of legislation was."
Yep, too bad individual states don't seem to have the same guardrails. States that are d/d/d or r/r/r have free reign to pass whatever they want based on which way the wind blows.
And once again we are reminded why large technical advances happen outside of the EU
I doubt regulations are the issue. In fact the internet was invented at CERN and plenty of unicorns started the in the EU (Spotify, Skype, etc).
I think the EU is a way behind because of a lack of investment in startups.
Edit:
Like 90% of de audio dev industry is in Europe (Native instruments, Ableton, Steinberg, UVI, Arturia, etc).
> In fact the internet was invented at CERN…
In fact, it was not.
You're technically right, the web was.
What advancements? Shoveling more money to the top via new middlemen we don't need like Uber and Airbnb? Mortgage backed securities? Blackrock's business model? For profit prisons?
Moving money does not mean advancement in humanity or quality of life for every one.
Which advancements are you thinking of? The two decade long development of Meta's untamed surveillance apparatus?
Yeah... having multiple trillon dollar companies doesnt have any advantage at all... High paying jobs? Taxes? Brain drain? No getting your citizens data exposed to other countries? Nope, nothing.
It's more of the same historical shit, wealth concentrated into a few individual with their cast around them, living in their bubble. History is full of stories like this and it never ends well. Trillion dollars companies are not an achievement, it's a symptom.
High paying jobs for the best and brightest for.... optimizing engagement of cat videos?
Sounds more like a real-life imitating the opening of the movie Idiocracy.
Strictly use Meta as an example, since the HN crowd loves to bash them, during the same two decades they've released Presto, PyTorch, React, llama. Can you see SOME advancements?
A better link would be to the Europa portal itself (not paywalled) [0].
I know some folks are quite allergic to the word “regulation” and I think in this case, we should call them “safeguards”.
You can innovate all you want, just don’t hurt people in the process.
[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20231206IP...
Why is this a race you'd want to win?
The end of the future began with socialism. The only advance from the eastern alliance was proving that. (STNG)