It is insane that the EU hasn't done more to create local tech companies to reduce their reliance on the US. They need their own version of Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent (among others), just like China does. It's fine to leverage allies for certain parts of your economy, but the tech sector is right up their with military when it comes to industries where the EU shouldn't be depending on external allies so strongly. It's not like the EU has the same religious devotion to free markets that the US has which would make them hesitant to prop up their local tech companies for 10+ years until they could survive on their own.
I found an EU report from 2025 that suggested it would take $5 trillion to do this, which would be about 5% of the government revenue of all EU countries combined if done over a decade. Just like efforts to become less reliant on the US military complex, the EU should really get started.
I wonder what they will do when the cost of AI increases? We all know that AI companies are selling their services at a loss. Often on a cost-of-compute- basis, but even more so when you factor in model training costs incurred with investor cash. And that is even before we account for how the shortages of relevant hardware and server space for running all of this are driving up the costs of memory, chips, etc. Or the fact that the energy crisis is only getting started, and will impact literally every part of the value chain for addressing the current and future demand.
In 1998, 1 Mbps of bandwidth cost $1200 per month. Today it is about 10 cents. The past never perfectly predicts the future, but I wouldn't be on the side who thinks AI won't be significantly cheaper in the near future. My Claude subscription costs be $200 per month today and gives me $2500-3000 worth of tokens per month. But in 5 years that same amount of usage will probably be a few hundred, and in ten years it will probably be $50.
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You obviously weren't around for the petrified with hot grits era of Slashdot.
Are you implying that parents are more qualified to determine what's best for their children than the government? Keep talking like that, and you'll end up in a reeducation camp.
I'd say the government is far more capable of determining what's in the best interest of their children than the parents, but in its current state they don't leverage that capability or even have a desire to do so.
The chances that a parent has the same access to child psychologists, researchers, teacher's associations, and any other groups necessary to determine the child's best interests is laughable. The chances that a parent will base their decisions more from their own biases and ignorance than on careful research is high.
But the chances that the government in practice will do all of those things, and put in practices to effectively allow parents / teachers / etc to provide feedback on an individual child to make exceptions to broad rules, are also laughably low. So in practice it's far better to allow parents to make those decisions, even though I wouldn't consider it ideal.
Agreed completely. If a parent helps the kid register, there shouldn't be any problem here. Working as intended as far as I'm concerned.
Why not just use Unreal Engine? I'd do the same thing as this parent.
Problem is, if you repeat the question the LLM will give a different answer each time.
No it won't. It may change the wording, but not the answer. I just asked Gemini what the capital of the US was five times using Google, and got five unique responses. All of them said it was Washington DC though.
Renaldo noted that the essence of food trucks is market place agility. If you can roll a burrito you can vibe code .
Is knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know that?
