And better than anywhere in Europe for Tech with Deepmind and Ineffable Intelligence there.

It still shares many of the same mistakes as Europe though - e.g. now having to buy Russian oil and gas again instead of using the North Sea oil, not expanding nuclear power, rampant welfare and council housing corruption, etc.

It doesn't matter if the 800-line if statement is able to use pattern matching.

There's been a lot of progress on making coding agents able to solve problems when they can easily evaluate in a closed loop, we desperately need something similar for controlling complexity and using relevant abstractions.

That's how you end up like Germany still using cash and fax machines for 60+ years.

There's a big lesson for Europe there, everyone super productive and able to move to the US does so at the first opportunity.

The issue is you need verifiable rewards for that (and a good environment set-up), and it's hard to get rewards that cover everything humans want (security, simplicity, performance, readability, etc.)

Software patents would work as you describe, but not copyright.