The people the article describes are a very small subset of the American cultures: the ones with intellectual curiosity and money to travel to another country.

For each American tourist you see in Europe there are at leas a dozen, back in the U.S., that don't travel, don't have curiosity for a foreign culture or don't even have any curiosity at all.

And, then, what moral grounds do Europeans have to talk about "invasion" or "imperialism"? The golden eras of Europe where built on exactly that. At least they're conquering you with dollars, not guns. The 3rd world European colonies of 19th century weren't that lucky.

You know what this article smells like? It is typical European insularity. Europe is still a continent with people that spent the last 3000 years in wars among themselves. Actually, Italians only stopped wars against other Italians on the 19th century, after unification.

If, like Brin, you're the boss and you can delegate all the unpleasant parts of work to your minions then why not work 60 hours only in the pleasant parts (including having sex with a marketing manager) and, still, cash billions?

Artists feel the same about AI, it is probably much worse for them. Computer was a job before becoming a machine. And IT has been automating jobs out of existence ever since.

This has been going for centuries.

"The job of a judge is to arrest the poor, free the rich and carve some sweet nepotism for his/her relatives".

"From a judge's head, a politician's mouth and a baby's but you should always expect the same thing".

If you want to put it in such dumb terms: AlphaFold.

However, Photoshop and Excel aren't only code. They're a culture, a social environment. They are the user base that built a social environment that nurtures these products and makes them culturally relevant. This social environment can't be build in 2 years.

There are even parts of both Windows and MacOS rendered through HTML. If I remember correctly, at least in Windows 10, File Explorer was rendered through Internet Explorer.

Web rendering doesn't need to be only through Electron/Node. There are other libraries much more performant and lean (Dioxus, etc).

This as been so overwhelmingly obvious in 3rd world countries (viz. India's "non-alignment" foreign policy) but, still, Europe, Canada, Japan and Australia didn't fully get it: the concept of "rules based world order" is just a layer of makeup over "American Imperialism". Americans make rules the same way Tony Soprano made rules: strictly for self-advantage. We should be thankful to Trump to wipe out that makeup, finally.

True, Mark Carney explained that in Davos. But I am not sure Canadians got it.

Which one of them all?

If you mean "building models that are very good at coding and as substitutes for search engines", then yeah, sure.

But if you mean: "applying AI to industrial applications and robotics", then China is far ahead: https://time.com/7382151/china-dominates-the-physical-ai-rac...

I doubt. Israel is a racist project and zionism is just apartheid with better PR.

Among Trumpistan, Israel and Iran there is no good guy in this war.

1. Unlike the rest of the world, EVs were sold in the US as muscle cars for rich people (e.g. Tesla). Everywhere else they're cheap cars for urban commuters (e.g. BYD).

2. Republicans sabotaged every attempt from the Democrats to get EVs going on.

3. Space and demography: EVs do very well in small countries (e.g. Europe) or big countries with a concentrated population (e.g.Brasil, Nigeria). They do poorly in countries with big distances and a spread out population.

1. Industrialization of Asia and factory automation

2. The rise of efficient agriculture in 3rd world countries and the consolidation of American farms into big companies that also increased productivity through automation.

True, Trump was incompetent because his policies only worsened a bad situation. But he alone isn't the problem.

And there isn't too much the US government can do to revert this economic decline. The solution, if there is one, has to come from innovation from the private economy.

Without a big change, the U.S. will only become more socially and politically unstable and more dangerous for itself and the world.

And let's be clear: Palantir executives want "other" people to die in wars, not them or their children.

The result is always a loss of credibility. With time, only the dumbest keep betting.

Now, please tell me that American companies are better at privacy than the Chinese ones.

Btw, some alternative email providers in truly democratic countries:

* ProtonMail (Switzerland)

* TutaMail, Posteo, Mailbox.org and Eclipso (Germany)

* Runbox (Norway)

* Mailfence (Belgium)

Guns, fireworks, explosives, sulfuric acid, all sorts of bio-hazards, ... every civilized country restricts peoples' access to these things. It is a no brainier, but Americans obsessively wrap it in ideology.

Oil is in the way out. Only countries addicted to oil don't see that. And the Americans are addicted to oil.

What exactly are you talking about? Psychoanalysis, acupuncture and homeopathy? I think science already has produced a solid body of criticism for these.

Or are you trying to take a shot at creationism, vaccines' skepticism, global warming denial, deny that cigarettes cause cancer or flat earth bullshit? Because these "ideas" don't really deserve any serious intellectual respect.