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We're watching the ultimate destructive expression of the comp sci "oh, we can just automate that" hubris.
And we will be caught in the resulting cultural collateral damage.
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As another European it amuses me that Europe cannot give up this smug attitude and keeps looking at the US in such a condescending way. Meanwhile Europe has been in freefall for a decade and nobody here seems to notice.
> Meanwhile Europe has been in freefall for a decade and nobody here seems to notice. We all have different values that matter. Europeans (for better or worse) tend to prefer stability, probably because of past experiences, over oligarchy and free capitalism, while the US is almost the exact opposite. So both parties look at the other and see "freefall decline for decades", both being smug about the other being worse…
We're watching the ultimate destructive expression of the comp sci "oh, we can just automate that" hubris.
And we will be caught in the resulting cultural collateral damage.
Just like Web3 and decentralized tech got a bad rap because of Luna, FTX and other centralized grifters. First they came for the decentralized BFT developers, and I piled on, because I wasn’t decentralized…
The security and intelligence apparatus made bet big that they could prevent a second trump election, after quite successfully destabilising the first -- they failed. And now the very system of unaccountable executive power which has been built up, is now being used against the executive itself. This makes me increasingly concerned for a similar turn of events in the UK (ie., given the many actions of the UK state to…
And does it really matter? The authority for doing many of the things Trump's current admin is doing don't actually fall to the executive branch; they're doing them anyway.
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Compared to the US the EU falls much slower
You must be kidding, the last decade is about Europe totally shooting themselves in the foot and giving up leadership in almost every field. US and China have been the big winners here.
Like I said the EU falls slower.
I say this as a UKian with a constitutional monarch as head of state: These actions suggest that today the United States seems to have a de facto King with far greater powers than even those held by George III at the time the founders decided that America did not need a King. They might not be called that, but they have the ability to exert behaviours akin to an English monarch not seen much since Henry VIII. Arguabl…
The checks and balances assumed the entire country didn't vote the exact same people into majorities in all 3 branches
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As another European it amuses me that Europe cannot give up this smug attitude and keeps looking at the US in such a condescending way. Meanwhile Europe has been in freefall for a decade and nobody here seems to notice.
Compared to the US the EU falls much slower
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