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by wavemode 189 days ago
> Europe is also going to have to change its political mindset. Lavish pensions and other elements of Europe’s social model are going to have to be temporarily curbed to help give Europe the fiscal space and physical resources to fight off its enemies. All nuclear plants need to be restarted, and Europe should build more nuclear, ignoring “green” parties and environmental activists who irrationally hate nuclear power. Europe needs to reform its land-use regulation to require greater construction of solar and wind power. And Europe is going to have to back off of its aggressive regulation of AI software, in order to produce cutting-edge autonomous weaponry.

Is there a Make Europe Great Again (MEGA) movement? This guy would make a great spokesperson for them.
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cjbenedikt 189 days ago
"And Europe is going to have to back off of its aggressive regulation of AI software, in order to produce cutting-edge autonomous weaponry." Ever heard of Helsing https://helsing.ai/ or Quantum Systems https://quantum-systems.com/? Just two examples. There are more.
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miohtama 188 days ago
> Ever heard of Helsing

No. And that's part of the problem.

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cjbenedikt 188 days ago
Why is that a problem? They're doing just fine without you having heard of them.The ones who need to know seem to know. Just adding www.euclid.ai and www.dunia.ai as two more examples apparently not affected by "aggressive EU ai regulation".
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disgruntledphd2 187 days ago
And clearly the author hasn't read the AI act, where there are explicit carve-outs for security and defence applications (as there are in basically every EU law).
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Sabinus 188 days ago
Europe can't moralise itself into security and prosperity.

The European 'peace dividend' that was invested into social safety nets is backed by American might. That might is going away, so Europe will need to fund it's own defence. That means a cut to social services.

Neither can they afford to turn their noses up at nuclear energy, or AI enabled weapons. The future is coming and it has high energy demands and drone swarms.

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disgruntledphd2 187 days ago
> The European 'peace dividend' that was invested into social safety nets is backed by American might

Do you have any evidence for where the peace dividend went? Like, if you look at entitlements over the past 30 or so years, you can see that they've gotten worse in a bunch of European countries (UK, Germany probably not France).

It looks a lot more like the peace dividend went into caring for old people, as it will in basically all Western countries over the next while. Not sure there's a better solution, apart from letting old people die.

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