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You shouldn't care - especially if you're not located in the EU.
by pr337h4m 10mo ago
You shouldn't care - especially if you're not located in the EU.
- cr125rider 10mo agoIf the EU tried to innovate as hard on technology as they did regulations, imagine how far they’d be…
- saubeidl 10mo agoThis trope is tiring. * We're leading the world in fusion research. https://www.pppl.gov/news/2025/wendelstein-7-x-sets-new-performance-records-fusion-research https://www.pppl.gov/news/2025/wendelstein-7-x-sets-new-perf... * Our satellites are giving us by far the best understanding of our universe, capturing one third of the visible sky in incredible detail - just check out this mission update video if you want your mind blown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXCBFlIpvfQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXCBFlIpvfQ * Not only that, the Copernicus mission is the world's leading source for open data geoobservation: https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/ https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/ * We've given the world mRNA vaccines to solve the Covid crisis and GLP-1 antagonists to solve the obesity crisis. * CERN and is figuring out questions about the fundamental nature of the universe, with the LHC being by far the largest particle accelerator in the world, an engineering precision feat that couldn't have been accomplished anywhere else. Innovation isn't just about the latest tech fad. It's about fundamental research on how our universe works. Everyone else is downstream of us.
- throwaway091025 10mo ago[flagged]
- mhitza 10mo agoA comment that's vague, inflammatory, confrontational, and not at all related to the parent comment.
- ls612 10mo agoHe's not wrong though. A Europe that has to be responsible for its own defense either has to substantially reform its economy and society, or rely on France with its ASMPA doing the geopolitical equivalent of a drunk guy waving a knife around saying "stay away!".
- saubeidl 10mo agoI feel like the madman with nukes approach would probably be enough - just ask North Korea if they've been invaded lately ;-)
- mhitza 10mo agoHe's not right either because he makes large vague claims. If we want to discuss it on clear subjects. The "free" Europe has, and always will, thank the US for their help during WW2. The US didn't protect us until now, because there was nothing they had to protect us from. US pulled it's allied NATO members into war in Iraq, if we're tallying things up. With the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, both the EU and the US came to aid because a sovereign, close to EU, nation is invaded. No one was forced to do so. It's a matter of adhering to principles, that in theory are, shared by the "western" countries. Realistically the US would have to jump to our aid if Russia's attempts outreach their Ukraine war. But that is because that's part of the deal we all made when becoming members of NATO. And in terms of "subsidizing". That's the most outlandish claim, the US military industrial complex is so large for a reason. It's due to benefitting directly from the international government contracts, the technology it's building and selling (let's leave aside the shady and corrupt aspects of it for this topic) The small amount of investment spent on military by European NATO members is a fair claim, but let's not kid ourselves, the grander scope of such spending will, and is going, towards US military tech. In a sense having higher spending is all about pushing more money to the US.
- bgwalter 10mo agoThat is X propaganda. The U.S. actively prohibits additional EU states getting nuclear weapons and does not really want a super strong EU. The U.S. profits from the military strength and "protection" with an overvalued dollar and people irrationally buying U.S. bonds. The EU spends at least three times as much on defense as Russia. But hey, perhaps it should spend EUR 1 trillion and get active in the Middle East again, after the U.S. has kicked it out in the Suez crisis.
- blitzar 10mo agoWithout the United States starting wars all over the world, the military support of the United States would not be needed.
- nradov 10mo agoWho was it that invaded Ukraine? Who provided the bulk of protection to Europe during the Cold War? Hmmm...
- mopsi 10mo ago> Whatever social niceties you have are thanks to somebody else protecting you and subsidizing your protection. Now more than ever, seems like it was just smoke and mirrors all along.
- troyvit 10mo agoAlong the same lines, if the US tried to innovate as hard on regulations as they do on technology maybe we wouldn't be destroying the world.
- nradov 10mo agoCitation needed. I just checked and the world is still intact.
- zero-sharp 10mo agoYou have to leave your room first.
- politelemon 10mo agoComparing the two, Europe is in a pretty good place right now thanks to its regulations. I'm glad it isn't as "far" and there are still some vestiges of treating people as humans.
- lm28469 10mo agoMeanwhile thousands of Americans don't have access to lead free running water, your public transportation system is about as good as ours from 150 years ago, parents have to be back in the office instantly after having a baby, if you don't have insurance a cancer will bankrupt you, your average lifespan is going down, &c. Keep your llms and iphones, we're more than fine on our side lmao
- rspoerri 10mo agoThe AI Act applies to you if: - You provide AI systems used in the EU (regardless of where you’re based) - You import or distribute AI systems in the EU - You use AI systems in your business operations in the EU In other words: if your AI touches the EU market in any way, you’re covered. Anytime an EU user consumes your product, you’re accountable.
- ronsor 10mo agoNot once the GRANITE Act arrives.
- erispoe 10mo agoThe New Hampshire proposed state law?
- neuronexmachina 10mo agoAs far as I'm aware that's currently just a blog post from the Kiwi Farms lawyer, not a bill.
- int32_64 10mo ago>regardless of where you’re based This isn't true.
- CamperBob2 10mo agoSounds like an EU problem to me.
- greyface- 10mo ago> The AI Act applies to you [...] regardless of where you’re based By what mechanism? Extradition?
- hackingonempty 10mo agoSame with Thailand's lese majeste laws. Better hope nobody on your site writes "Vajiralongkorn the King of Thailand is an impotent jerkface."
- erispoe 10mo agoVirtually everyone complies with GDPR.
- saubeidl 10mo agoUnless you want to be able to sell to a market twice as big as the US, of course.
- unmole 10mo agoThis is innumerate bordering on the delusional.
- saubeidl 10mo agoThe EU consists of roughly 500M well-off consumers, the US of roughly 300M. Maybe not quite double, but almost.
- pianom4n 10mo agoAnd a GDP 2/3 the size. And way less than that by disposable income. Even users from "rich" EU countries are worth ~30% of a US user to most companies.
- saubeidl 10mo agoDoesn't matter. Rich enough to afford most products, as pretty much the only market other than the US. And more people. Biggest addressable market for most things.
- lm28469 10mo agoSo what? Even people living in poor EU countries buy iphones, use windows, watch Netflix If the market was at best 1/3rd of the US no one would bother implementing all these regulations
- unmole 10mo agoAnd yet Apple, Microsoft and Netflix make significantly more revenue from the US than the EU. It's almost as if the EU is not actually a bigger market.
- josefritzishere 10mo agoThis is not sound legal advice. Even Elon learned a lesson about that recently.