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A more relevant recent example would be the shameful stripping of British citizenship from a girl who had been trafficked to the Middle East
They got radicalized and went there voluntarly
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> Munich tried a big-bang migration without enough internal expertise and caved under political pressure Almost sounds planned to fail...
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Definitely. And then one could start wondering if the direction might reverse.
It would take something miraculous for the direction to reverse towards Europe. People have been complaining about European tech, economy, and freedoms (as in free speech) for decades now. Things have become worse on all of these fronts. I think the AI act is a great example here. The EU came up with regulation for an emerging technology that basically killed the chance for Europe to compete. Lots of people disagreed…
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No-one needs LLMs. AI has no value.
Im skeptical of the AGI claims but this is a bit too far in the toher direction. I use it to turn designs to code all the time
A human can however do the same job. Turning designs into code isn't a fundamentally new capability unlocked by GenAI, it's just a shuffling of costs from employing humans -> renting GPUs
There's literally no non-American general-purpose operating system.
Finally Europe grew a spine
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> There are many examples and some of them are not without basis but while things have gotten less stabby-stabby there's some fairly brutal attitudes and behaviors. Yeah, I won't claim that everyone is treated equally or even fairly in Europe, and some places are absolutely worse than others, in many different ways. I'd still claim we no longer do "expulsions" of entire ethnoreligious groups anymore in the 21st centu…
I agree things have improved but the GP to my first post set context to: > Europe's treatment of perceived outsiders You seemed to be picking a rather narrow slice of the scope.
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> Pedantry attracts dislike. One may be right to state something, yet wrong to call it out in public. Ironically most French people I know would be perfectly receptive and happy to receive corrections in grammar, English or otherwise. The French tend to be particularly pedantic about the teaching of their own grammar. Most native French speakers are quite used to being swiftly and firmly corrected on grammar from an…
there is a time and place for everything. "Les règles de bienséance" matter more to me than the safekeeping of the exactness of English grammar, which as others have been keen to point out is hardly as strict as you seem to imply. And no, no French person likes to receive corrections in grammar. Giving lectures on proper english grammar/pronounciation is generally a mark of (classist) pedantry since speaking proper e…
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I agree things have improved but the GP to my first post set context to: > Europe's treatment of perceived outsiders You seemed to be picking a rather narrow slice of the scope.
Well, to be fair, GP did use the "Expulsion of Jews from Spain" as the example for that, so I don't think they were trying to say "Some people in Europe have bad thoughts about perceived outsiders" but rather hinting to some larger events still happening today.
I'd suggest that in Europe also there's more than just bad thoughts for outsiders but bad words, bad treatment, and exclusion from thriving. Extreme cases include bodily harm and I'm fairly certain death but these extreme occur at a lower scale.