Replying to 2. Curiously, curiosity (exploring tech) is cheaper in the US. I don’t see why it necessarily has to be, though. EU folks are more educated, hence

Replying to 2. Curiously, curiosity (exploring tech) is cheaper in the US. I don’t see why it necessarily has to be, though. EU folks are more educated, hence they can select promising avenues and avoid boredom and even upfront costs. E.g. you want to train a new language model? Harnessing your polyglot nature, you find a far better kind of language model where you eschew the latest TPU. You learn quickly from Juergen Schmidhuber, whom Americans do not realize, has already solved everything in machine learning. It is hard to do new things in the EU because there is nothing new in the EU — someone already did it.