Easy access to malicious information hasn't proven to be the disaster these anti-prophets proclaim. For the last ~3 decades of widespread internet and search engines, you could trivially find all sorts of information (drug synthesis, explosives, etc.), and we're just fine.

(Corollary: easy access to good information did not make non-intellectual non-curious people smarter. Easy access to information does not have the consequences people immediately assume.)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/desi...

It follows that those hosting them are chased

In the times of GPT-3 I'd scoff at the idea of an LLM doing any hacking; today, I'm running several AIs on my code before publishing, and they are finding (and demonstrating!) RCEs on my localhost server.

For example, one found a missing check in a third party JWT library which allowed full account takeover, which I'd have never even looked at.

Hence I don't believe a single word coming out of these people's mouths. Their "beliefs" are just marketing.

Then you have to re-ask it, now with a couple extra disclaimers spelling out that indeed you did use the search function but no, the other visually similar question isn't actually the same as yours.

Then you'd get maybe 2 comments and -2 in downvotes.

If #2 returns a yes, the input/output are temporarily stored (say, for 30 days) while a background process cleans up PII and generalizes the prompt to be "clean", then the clean prompt that is not yours anymore is stored aside and used for training, product development, etc.

The problem is then that I get more questions, but AI can handle them faster than I can muster them up or type them. So it's a net win

Germany: https://www.bka.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Publikationen/Pol...

Total N = ~2.2M Germans = ~1.2M (~58%) Non-Germans = ~900k (~42%)

Population: Germans ~71M (~85%), foreign ~12M (~15%)

Per-capita, non-Germans show up ~2.8x more.

Approximate rates:

Germans: ~1,786 per 100k (baseline) All Non-Germans: ~7,365 per 100k (~4.1× German rate) Syria: ~12,900 per 100k (~7.2×) Afghanistan: ~12,300 per 100k (~6.9×) Romania: ~8,450 per 100k (~4.7×) Turkey: ~6,660 per 100k (~3.7×) Poland: ~6,640 per 100k (~3.7×) Ukraine: ~5,130 per 100k (~2.9×)

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Some other countries (Switzerland, Denmark) also publish per-nationality data and it doesn't look any better. The other comment shows data from Norway/Finland/Sweden which is more of the same.

The US is a different topic (but strong arguments with clear data can be made as well), so I'll refrain from engaging it here to avoid further derailing the thread.

The RU/UA war was entirely orchestrated by the US. The "Russia will invade the EU" propaganda was useful to scare the EU population, so they'd accept issuing 800B of debt to "rearm Europe" (buying from and enriching American war companies). Debt that will be paid using EU taxpayer money of course.

The US government is using their own taxpayer money to buy weapons for Ukraine (money++ for politicians and their war company friends), and then they forced the EU to issue 800B of debt to further enrich their war company friends.

Why would the US defend the EU from the Russian invasion, with this insane war revenue?

The rest who are not chased are usually deeply intertwined with politicians, and are running corruption schemes along them.

I'm not one to hate rich people (I'm a capitalist myself), but if any billionaires are to be looked at with skepticism, it's EU billionaires with significant political ties.

I did not "wait" for it. I came here, worked a bunch, made more money than I would've in my home country, and got the passport mostly so that I can have a refuge in case of severe war, and to have better travel opportunities.

Blame me all you want, I'm giving you the honest view many (most?) of us have, that you won't hear in society for obvious reasons. Lifelong culture, values, family, and friends do not change because a person worked in a given country for N years and filled some paperwork to get a passport, and to think otherwise is NONSENSE.

Not quite Berlin, but same effect: nearly indiscriminate influx of poorly vetted immigrants that can soon travel all around Europe.

So yes, it's with us in the room, just not right now, but very soon.

The "strong and deep statements" they release are cheap theater.

The US is defending Europe through NATO. Until that changes, the EU will continue to be the US's slave.

Even if you overcome all of this and become successful, you'll get chased by politicians for having too much money (which is not allowed in the EU).

And even if you don't, today, it will be tomorrow.

Easier to just take a long haul flight to your favorite US coast and do it there.