Content
@
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
King
@king
Completely discounting EU for any technological progress from here on out. As if the tech landscape in EU isn’t already dire. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/technology/eu-ai-act-regulation.html
6 replies
1 recast
4 reactions
Gökhan Turhan
@gokhan.eth
I discounted AI a decade ago when I realize that utter normies from NGO wastemakers between 18 and 25 become MPs in a couple of years.
2 replies
0 recast
1 reaction
Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
How would you fix it if you had a magic wand?
1 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
Gökhan Turhan
@gokhan.eth
I spent 10 years thereabouts in this or that ngos. i ain't even using my wand for the rule of the mediocre.
2 replies
0 recast
0 reaction
Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
I appreciate the disenchantment, but supranational institutions (UN, EU, etc) are only worth the effort we collectively put in them. So either we cooperate to build them better, or we lose interest and keep complaining about their present state of mediocrity, or we disband them altogether and return to raw realism.
2 replies
0 recast
1 reaction
PhiMarHal
@phimarhal
Who is "we"? The first problem lies in most people not getting to cooperate. The EU is utterly locked to anyone not part of the apparatchik, and if a troublemaker does get in, they get outvoted then squeezed out fast enough. I recommend Adults in the Room by Varoufakis, a great summary of the status quo...
1 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
PhiMarHal
@phimarhal
...with a writer that is himself fairly entrenched in the system, yet sees himself and is seen as an outsider. Speaks to the disconnect with the common man, a disconnect that is not happenstance but engineered, in the case of the European Union.
1 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
