[crispinb]

Someone once said something to the effect: "I'm not concerned that computers will become more like people, I am that people will learn to 'think' like computers".

A fortiori humans vs social media. You are faux-thinking in a series of tweets.

[amadeuspagel]

If this comment thread dropped to the level of twitter somewhere, it's the second level comment ("malevolent child"). I'm not sure what sort of vrai-thinking response you expect to that.

[xvector]

Ah, I forgot you are the only one in this thread capable of real human thought. My apologies for bothering you with my "faux-thinking."

[crispinb]

You're quite capable of seeing that a serious of ludicrously generalised ideological statements, entirely abstracted from reality, are as close to meaningless as human statements get (which is exactly why social media affords them). You are just blinkered by acculturation, and prefer it that why. Drama is so much more fun than reality.

[xvector]

All of the statements are fact, they are not meaningless.

> the EU is stagnating

True. Verifiable. Compare the value of the EU vs the US's or China's tech industry over time. The US's is now worth 20x the EU's.

A region's technological prowess lagging behind or even declining vs its peers is the very definition of stagnation.

> and definitely losing on the global stage.

The EU has a declining share of global GDP is increasingly becoming a less valuable market as companies opt to simply not deploy new products to the region.

> It has totally suffocated itself with regulation

Also correct. You can talk to essentially any EU small businessman - or even any of the (very few) AI companies in the EU. Mistral - the EU's most promising AI company - has been practically killed by the EU AI Act.

This isn't a hot take, nor is it overly general; the EU's regulatory industrial complex is a well-recognized problem.

> and is fading into irrelevancy with every passing day; soon, it won't be much more than a tourist spot for everyone else.

With the EU economy declining, and its share of global economic activity declining, and the EU preemptively locking itself out of a AI market worth trillions - one of the only major areas the EU remains strong is tourism.

> And they've gaslit themselves into thinking everything is fine, but no sane country would look at it as a model worth emulating.

References the common discourse from EU regulators where they pat themselves on the back for passing terrible regulation - e.g. passing the AI act and severely disadvantaging one of their best companies. Indeed, no one would want to emulate this.

These are just examples. Generalized statements are used because tens of examples can be provided for each example. It is more succinct to communicate the generalized example, with an understanding that anyone keeping up to date with events in this space (EU regulation, progress, technology) will understand what is being referred to.