America can switch off AI. Europe must switch gears before it's too late

I think you missed my point. I never said people should like change for the worst, my point was the change for the worst is often inevitable in the world, and the issue I was talking about is that the EU doesn't do anything when changes for the worst inevitably happen.

If the EU doesn't like changes for the worst happening, then it needs to get up its ass and implement the changes it wants to see in the world, by force if it has to, like the US and China are doing for their own interests. But the EU does nothing, it just sits on the sidelines, complains, talks down to, and moralizes its citizens and the rest of the word on how everyone should stop doing those bad things, which just gets applause from liberal activists, but doesn't actually fix anything, so EU's prosperity and influence declines leaving it poorer, more vulnerable and more and more at the mercy of external bad actors simply because it does nothing practical, only feel-good PR stunts and speech control on social media.

Edit: like the 3 Euro parcel tax the EU just added starting from today.

Yet, it's done routinely in public communication and portrayed as something noble.

> Many people relate to the world this way, but not all of them.

So? Is the distinction even economically relevant? The fact that you hate or love your chains has no bearing for the slavemaster.

> The most joyful moments of my life are things like hiking with friends, or good conversation, or spending time with family, not purchasing commercial goods.

That's great. I never said that being a consumer is joyful or the whole picture of human existence. Only that that's where the poor people are most economically powerful and that this should politically embraced, promoted and protected.

> The economic lens is only one (incomplete) way of viewing human activity.

Sure, but we were talking about economy and associated politics.

Was US interested in that? These things just happen when you do business. And don't happen as much if you don't.

> Chinese government policy shifts to enact mass export controls out of national security concerns.

Gee, I wonder who they got those silly ideas from. How well is that working for the country who came up with this first?

> The US along with allies like South Korea, Japan, and West Germany transferred IP to China in the 1980s to 2000s

Out of sheer goodness of their hearts, I'm sure. No, you just can't exploit someone efficiently, without sharing at least some of what you know. That's just what's needed and what happens when you do this kind of business.

Getting exploited in this fashion brought China tremendous advantage. Europe should follow this path.

> China - just like the US - is uninterested in negotiating with the EU as equals nor in providing it capabilities for technological self sufficiency.

What gave you the impression that I postulate "as equals" negotiation? There are no equals in geopolitics, ever. US spent more than last half a century treating Europe as a vassal state, suppressing its development and exploiting it for capital, technology and people. That's not new for Europe. US nukes have been pointed at half of Europe for a very long time and the other half defense anf politics were fully infiltrated by the US. It's not new for Europe to carve out comfortable existence under someone's boot. But keeping yourself bound to a "has been" empire on its way down is not a winning strategy.

> China has significant strategic linkages with Russia that cannot be broken

Of course they can. Russia is maybe a few years (at most decades) away from losing significant part of its territory to China.

> China has significant disdain for Europe

Rightfully so. And Europe would need to be a good and useful client and a partner for a decade or two before it can change.

> China - just like the US - is uninterested in negotiating with the EU as equals nor in providing it capabilities for technological self sufficiency.

Europe is the only political entity on Earth that has self sufficiency in making most advanced lithography machines. China can't make them, US can make them. They would need piles of money (which they have) and decades of work (which they don't) to change that. Europe just should walk down from its pedestal and play their cards, including the strongest one, to get in good graces with China, because US is on its way out.

> As I have pointed to you with sources

Your sources are other people's narrations. But thank you very much for providing them, so that I could asses them.

> Maybe the capitalists who funded our project are the slavemasters, in your worldview?

Not literal of course. Just filling the role of.