[FirmwareBurner]

I'm guessing that due to regulations, the only AIs you'll be allowed to use in the EU will be the EU developed ones that fulfill the requirements, so there's a captive market right there for local companies.

Granted, they'll probably end up performing worse than US or Chinese ones operating without restrictions and being uncompetitive on the global free market, but when did EU leaders ever think about long term consequences? Certainly not when they tied their economy to Russian gas and banned nuclear, certainly not when they prioritized toxic diesel engines over gasoline, certainly not when they demilitarized or when they ceded tech innovation to US and China, but for once this will be the right call, I can feel it, this will bring EU to the forefront of tech supremacy.

[roguecoder]

Why would you assume they would end up performing worse?

I have yet to see a company that prioritized quality over profits, unless forced to by regulation.

[FirmwareBurner]

>Why would you assume they would end up performing worse?

Extrapolating from historical outcomes using logic and critical thinking.

No company/start-up in history ever, became successful by having to start with more regulations than their competition.

[saubeidl]

Vestas, the Danish wind turbine manufacturer only achieved global dominance due to Danish energy regulations in the 80s.

That's just one random example that came to mind.

[MattPalmer1086]

Maybe they aren't looking for tech supremacy, and prefer tech that doesn't harm their citizens?

[pjmlp]

Globalisation is over, and the way wars are going on, lets see what gets left of the planet to save, if at all.

[FirmwareBurner]

Globalization is most definitely not over because human capitalistic greed is not over, and since EU is poor in resources and it and the US lack cheap manufacturing at scale of commodity goods, it's just evolved into moving dirty manufacturing from China to Vietnam, India etc. and importing the third world into the west for cheap labor instead of using it abroad.

Nor is the destruction of the planet as plenty of other countries than China will do it for western money/business opportunities. The planet is doomed either way due to factors out of your individual control, you can choose to profit out of it or die poor thinking you did the right scarified to save it when it actually did nothing and your sacrifice was in vain. The planet is not saved just because you gave up using plastic straws and switched to tethered bottle caps while China is building 9000 new coal plants, India dumps plastic waste in the ocean and BP/Chevron have the 200th oil spill.

Globalization may be over from a military strategical point of view, but not from a capitalistic, economical and environmental point of view. But you go and pay more "green" taxes to the state for everything you buy, I'm sure that will save the planet.

[pjmlp]

Trading resources that one lacks inside the kingdom borders isn't the same as the planet scale globalisation since the end of 20th century.

Trade has always existed between settlements through mankind's history, and war as well, when trade alone doesn't make it.

Then there are the trade partners one trusts, and the ones we thought we could trust, and like the wind changes direction, no longer.

Agree with the stupidity of plastic straws, if one people actually left the beach clean as they do at home, or maybe that is exactly what they do at home, leaving garbage all over the place.

[FirmwareBurner]

We're not going back to self sufficient tribal societies. Stuff like semiconductors or iphones wouldn't exist if every country tried to be self sufficient and cut out from trade the countries they don't like.

You'll still be dependent on trading with comunist China and barbaric oil rich countries like Saudi Arabia who beheaded your Journalists, because they have stuff you need and can't get anywhere else, no matter how much you dislike them.

There's idealistic fantasy politic for the political speeches to the unwashed masses, and then there's Realpolitik on which the world actually runs where our leaders do backroom deals with the devil in order for the line to go up.

[pjmlp]

At least in Europe we don't pretend those states are something else, throwing out ridiculous tariffs for bringing impossible manufacturing processes back home.

Those banana and ananas fields in mainland US will be a great landscape.