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The EU has no digital dependency on corporate AI, which seems to be the biggest beneficiary of unwinding the GDPR and other personal-info protecting legislation.

I partly agree with the point you're making but I don't think it actually applies that much to weakening this specific legislation.

Further, your point doesn't negate the Corruption - nothing impedes both things happening at once and in fact Corruption explains the current digital dependency, which for example was made worse by EU decisions such as treating the US as a safe haven nation for the data of EU citizens even though already then the Snowden Revelations as well as US' very own legislation made it very clear that the US was not safe for any data stored there or in the hands of US companies since their authorities could secretly force companies there to give them access to that data.

We are in the hole we are in part because over the years people in positions of power in the EU were "friendly" to and "understanding of the concerns" of large US Tech companies and "by an amazing coincidence" were latter given millionaire "jobs" with those companies - EU policy in the digital domain was shaped by something other than the interests if EU citizens or even EU businesses and, last I checked, US companies were not the ones EU politicians were elected to represent.

Last but not least, further caving to the US will just dig that hole even further, making us even more susceptible in the future to such blackmailing - it is literally the very opposite of the direction when should be going to.

As I see it, the EU is a 470 million people market which could seriously fuck up US tech companies doing things like cutting the accounts of judges in the EU which weren't nice to them, and do so by using already existing regulatory tools (for example, launching investigations on them for non-compliance with several EU regulations), which could go all the way to huge penalties and even blocking their access to the EU market (which is huge and represents a massive chunk of their profits). There simply isn't a will to do so and I fully believe that lack of will is related to personal upside maximization of people in positions of power in the EU since, as you describe, they're already attacking the Judiciary in the EU.

Frankly the only explanation I see for these measures which isn't either some form of corruption or massive incompetence, would be if this was just one big smoke and mirrors show to delay actions by the current US administration with no actual intention of ultimately doing anything meaningful, all to give time within the EU to move to alternatives which are not dependent on the US and/or for the evolution of events (for example, the AI bubble crashing) to make the whole thing irrelevant. Even then, this doesn't provide a positive explanation for the strange unwillingness of EU regulators to deploy the big guns when the US attacks members of the Judiciary in the EU as you describe, and for the various measures taken in the past at the EU level which have helped create and deepen the current digital dependency.

Specifically in management terms its about the "known unknowns" - things that you know might happen but don't specifically know the when, how, how bad and if it will actually happen or not.

The main point I was making regarding the previous post is that insurance doesn't cover the "known knowns".

It's called Corruption.

If this goes through, watch out in a couple of years for ex-commisioners being paid fortunes by large Tech companies as non-executive board members, giving speeches or consulting gigs.

It's the same way as in the US, were people in positions of power doing "favours" today for large companies "by an amazing coincidence" later end up being paid enormous fortunes by those very companies or related companies for "working" 1h/month or similar - at that level the exchange of political favours for money is not done using brown envelopes full of bank notes.

Investigation and Prosecution of Corruption in Europe are a joke whilst Conflict Of Interest legislation is non-existent or riddled with so many giant loopholes that it's actually worse than if it didn't exists as it deceives most people into believing these things are properly legislated for.

We live in a seriously corrupt era in Europe, even in the countries which were traditionally cleaner.

Fair enough - I don't really know what are the numbers of Jewish People who already lived in the territory of Palestine that was became Israel at the time of the formation of that country.

This info is all I found some time ago because I was curious.

I knew that a lot of people from Russia had emigrated to Israel but the actual number was very surprising when I found out.

But yeah, either way we both agree on the core point which is that a large majority of Israelis are not descendants from people affected by the Holocaust.

Source (at the Jewish Virtual Library)

Maybe you should tell them they're "factually wrong".

because nearly 100 years ago someone else did it to their people and now they’re saying “it’s our turn.”

Not even close.

Most Israelis by a large margin are descendants of people who came from Russia, not Western Europe.

Most Israelis by a large margin are either descendants of people who came from Russia, or already lived in the territory of Palestine when Israel was formed, not descendants of people from Western Europe.

Only a small fraction of Israelis are descendants of people affected by the Holocaust, much less of Holocaust survivors.

There is no such thing as a "Jewish Hive Mind" and the only thing these Jews share with the Jews who were victims of the Holocaust is having the same religion, nothing else - not principles, not ethics, not morals, not empathy with victims of extreme racism, not even most of their culture: just because somebody also uses a kippah doesn't mean the think like you.

The Holocaust in Israel is nothing more than a tool used by the present day Nazi-like ideology that runs that place to induce collective fear amongst Jews because it's much more easy to spread extreme racist hate amongst people who live in fear because of their ethnicity.

This explains why, rather than learning from the Holocaust to empathise with the victims of such things (which would be a natural thing for the descendants of the victims of the Holocaust to learn from the experiences of their parents and grandparents), most people in Israel have instead learned extreme racist hate for those who don't look like them and who stand in the way of what they are told "is necessary make Jews safe".

The way the memory of the Holocaust is used in Israel is a complete total shit show of Racism and Propaganda that has massivelly distorted the real thing to serve the objectives of the Nazi-like ideology which is Zionism.

I think that if you look around (just look at things like ChatControl, ICE in the US and the support for the Genocidal White Colonialist state of Israel in most of the West) we in the "developed" West are fast moving backwards and becoming more like Russia - more surveillance, more authoritarianist use of force, more corruption, more racism, more imperialism, a more oligarchic economic system, more concentration of power, more inequality.

Even in a perfect World were common Russians accepted it with open arms, I'm not so sure an occupation of Russia by Western nations would ultimatelly end in them "developing" towards Western Standards rather than in Western nations finishing regressing towards Russian Standards.

The serfs will work harder if they are made to believe their voice counts and when the serfs work harder the Owner Class makes more money.

The irony of the descendants of immigrants into North America trying to detail Native Americans as immigrants is trully world-beating.

Insurance is about covering the risks of the unexpected.

So a company losing money can be insured but the insurance will only cover the costs of unexpected events (say, the business premises burning) rather than the normal business (which in this example actually loses money).

My understanding is that Insurance doesn't want to cover things done via AI because AI makes lots of mistakes and has a much higher probability of making massive mistakes (the kind of mistakes that can kill people or destroy companies) which even untrained humans will not do - AI will advise a suicidal person to kill themselves or somebody wanting to do pizza to put glue on top, whilst even the most untrained person will not: it's a bad idea to have an untrained person give psychological advice but it's an even worse idea to have an AI do it.

In other words AI in the loop increases the probability of exceptionally bad unusual situations happening, so the Insurer doesn't want to insure companies which use it because that Insurer would have far more and far bigger claims from such a client.This is the same as an insurer refusing to insure companies that use untrained personnel to do really high risk things or which place themselves in high risk situations just to save a buck (for example, storing highly flammable materials in an area with lots of sparks or fire use).

It's pretty standard for an insurer to refuse to provide insurance to operations which are taking huge unnecessary risks to save money and AI use definitely is a huge unnecessary risk in lots of situations (for example, lawyers using AI risk being disbarred if constantly in submissions to judges the AI references non-existing case law which it invented, same thing it would happen if they themselves constantly did something like that).

Exactly.

Even greedy millennials who are very low on the whole "wanting for others to be well, not just myself" kind of feeling and personal principles are themselves experiencing how it is to be born under the boot and realizing one is destined to be under it until the day one dies, and that feels bad, it feels unfair, it makes you want to "fuck this shit up".

It's not that millennials are inherently better or worse than other age groups, it's that they're far more likely than older generations to be familiar with being relentlessly victimize by present day society, through no fault of their own and merely due to something they were born with (specifically the "when they were born").

Basically far more of them know how it feels to be born poor in a society that gives you almost zero chances to climb up from that no matter how capable you are and how hard you work, than previous generations.

You know which countries had Communist revolutions? The kind with lots and lots of poor people with zero chance of improving their lot, such as Czarist Russia.

A lot of things suddenly get explained when one becomes aware of the traits associated with Psychopathy and Sociopathy and how around 5% of humans are high in the spectrum for one or the other.

In my own experience, certain kinds of behaviors are incredibly hard to believe in (deep down, emotionally, even if intellectually one does) when a person has an average or above average level of empathy: when you have a normal level of empathy it's pretty hard to put yourself in the shoes of and naturally accept that some people are casually and without any feeling of guilt the kind of person who, for example, couldn't care less if their personal-upside-maximizing actions hurt even little children or puppies as long as they didn't get reprisals from others for doing it.

Iron Maiden.

And by that I don't mean being forced to listen to loud metal music.

If I understood it correctly, per that legislation and given how the technology works, adult sites would have to block everybody coming to them from a known VPN exit point, not matter where the user actually is (because a site can't really tell were a user actually is when they're behind a VPN) to comply with it, meaning that it would impact everybody everywhere in the World using a VPN.

De facto Wisconcin's legilslature is trying to imposed their will not only on those who live in Wisconsin, not only on those who live anywhere in the US but on those who live anywhere in World.

Look, mate, Intellectual Property Laws are literally the government creating and giving somebody an artificial monopoly on something which would not naturally exist if it wasn't for artificial limitations on "doing the same thing" being forced on everybody thanks to legislation and the coercive powers of the Legal system, and this was purposefully written in Law to do exactly that, so it's not an unexpected legislative side effect.

So anywhere were Intellectual Property legislation can apply the market is not free, on purpose and by policy.

Now, a good argument can be done about how IP law incentivises the creation of things with a high utility value which would otherwise not be created, but that doesn't alter the fact that the whole thing is a giant legislative sledgehammer with massive destructive capability for both the Economy and people's lives, which needs to be handled very carefully in order not to do more harm than good.

As it so happens IP has gone completelly out of control in the US because Corruption there is incredibly high, more some when it comes to the property of ideas since holding a piece of such property can yield billions of dollars in profits - the profits from owning ideas can be far vaster than of merelly owning land - and this shit has been copied around the world by almost as corrupt politicians (for example, the thoroughly corrupt crooks in the EU commission pretty much copy every single "this will make me personally lots of money from thankful corporations" pieces of legislation from the US).

So Copyrights now last an insanelly long period - about 1.5 times the average human lifetime - before things covered by it go into the Public Domain, whilst lots of Patent Offices (most notably the ones in the US and Japan) will just accept patents on everything no matter how obvious without even a proper search for prior art, hence things like the "round corner button" patent that Apple has as well as countless business patents for "solutions" which are obvious to any domain specialist (many such patents literaly the product of paying a domain expert for an hour of their time by a patent troll to just "think up a solution for this" as no actual implementation is needed to get a patent, just the idea of how it could be done).

All this to say that this fucked up situation of insane government-given monopolies all over the place for shit that's obvious to domain experts or derivative (a common trick in patents for medicine is to just do a small tweak in the formulation to get another 25 years of patent protection on pretty much the same thing) was created ON PURPOSE by the very politicians who claim to want a Free Market.

The entire thing should be reviewed and ajusted in exactly the opposite direction it is going (so we should have shorter protection periods, no "ideas only" patents, proper prior art searches rather than relying on expensive court cases to nullify patents on things somebody else already did or which are common practice in that industry, no business patents, properly funded Patent Offices, no transnational recognition of patents - so that countries cough Japan cough can't just use their Patent Office as some sort of commercial weapon to benefit their local companies in other markets - and so on) but given that Intellectual Property is an area worth trillions (and, remember, it's entirelly artificial, so without that legislation such property would be worth nothing at all) and politicians are incredibly corrupt nowadays, this shit is getting worse rather than better (and, IMHO, severely slowing down the speed of progress in the current Era versus a Free Ideas system)

It's yet another thing to force the riff-raff to work any job for any pay.

Can't have people refusing to do disgusting or even life-long disabling jobs for peanuts.

See also "housing costs".

Were I am, you just get Insulin for free with a prescription from you Family Doctor, because we have a National Health Service.

Even without said prescription, it's only €70.

Americans are being thoroughly screwed, and it's very much on purpose thanks to the way laws and regulations around Healthcare were designed in the US (and, at the risk attractint the crowd throwing "bothsideism" slogans around to defend "their" "tribe", this is due to the actions of both US major parties) since in a real Free Market, Insuline over there should cost around the same as it costs over here without a prescription, not 10x more - without artificial market barriers there would be investors literally flying planeloads of the thing from Europe to US to make a killing out of buying it cheaply over here and selling it for "merelly" twice as much over there.

For me it really depends on the game and whilst the "glitzy" is often an indirect indicator of a game which is limited in its replayabiliy - I suppose because often they're games were there was much more investment in looks than gameplay - I should have added "highly curated" to that sentence since for me games with a story meant to be experienced in a certain way are pretty much "play once".

Most of the games which I keep coming back to again and again in quite short cycles have emergent gameplay elements and even the entire game area is different from play to play - not just Indie Games like Factorio, Don't Starve, The Lone Dark in Survival mode and Project Zomboid but also something like The Sims - whilst of "story" games, there are very few I go back to (as I mentioned Oblivion but also Fallout New Vegas and Fallout 3) and when I do it's after much more time, I suppose because I have to forget most of the story for it to be fun again.

My impression that in the last decade AAA has focused mostly on just two kinds of games - "Glitzy AAA open-world-ish" RPGs and multiplayer battle games - and for me the first have limited replayability unless they're a world with A LOT of depth were the story is but a small part of the game, whilst I can't be arsed to play the latter ever since online battlefields were swamped by kids in consoles as I really don't have the patience to babysit somebody else's ill behaved kids (still waiting for game makers to figure out that Adult Only servers would be immensely popular).

It's not that AAA can't do games with massive replayability, it's that the AAA part of the industry seems to have gone down the route of games being either "curated experiences" or massive multiplayer were the emergent gameplay comes the actions of other players, whilst many Indies - having way smaller budgets - have gone down routes were the gameplay is "self-assembling" emergent, often with the game area being procedurally generated, which adds up to something less predictable were two runs of the game whilst sharing some similarities are in practice sufficiently different not to feel repetitive.

This specific AGI wasn't really intelligent...

Almost all of the "Top 10 most replayable games" I have are Indie games, especially in the last 10 years.

They're games like Factorio or Project Zomboid which I keep getting back to a year or two after I last played so much of it that I got fed up.

Glitzy AAA open-world-ish games have beautiful visuals but their replayability is near zero, worse so for games which seem open-world but are in fact linear.

Mind you, some older AAA jewels in that style (such as Oblivion) do get me to come back eventually, but it takes something like 5+ or more as I basically have to forget most of the story before it's interesting to play such a game again.

If Price matched "Hours of Fun", almost all of the AAA stuff would be way cheaper whilst many Indie games would be far more expensive.