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k310 2 hours ago [-]
Who remembers export controls on encryption?
Technology transcends the narrow-mindedness of nationalism. We are one world. Nationalism is another tool for power-hungry people who thrive on a divide-and-conquer strategy.
All for one, and that's all.
saulpw 2 hours ago [-]
90s were a different era. Also encryption is small code. Try printing Fable weights on a T-shirt and see how far you can get.
k310 33 minutes ago [-]
I will explore the holographic
T-shirt business.
Until then, I guess QR codes will have to do (risky business, though)[0]
We are one world, but within that world are people who are willing to kill you in order to advance their own interests. Given that, I really prefer that the more powerful technology not be in their hands.
Unfortunately, my own country is becoming more that way than I have ever seen it...
cyanydeez 35 minutes ago [-]
we are one world, but 30% of us are dementia patients with persecution complexs.
throw-the-towel 52 minutes ago [-]
Great article. Sadly, much of the discussion about Europe amd tech immediately devolves into Europeans sniffing their own farts. It's refreshing that Armin isn't doing the same, and sad that I'm even finding this notable.
zhoBEENG 4 hours ago [-]
I appreciate this post a lot, even if I don’t agree with all its points, as I think it is grappling with the right problems. Europe needs to build and build with urgency if it’s ever going to get out of this mess it’s in.
The reaction to the US government restricting access to foreign nationals is interesting to me. On the one hand, people rail against US imperialism. On the other, they get angry when they don’t have access to the tools of empire. It feels very “What have the Romans ever done for us?”
andsoitis 4 hours ago [-]
> It is not just about capabilities, it is about racism and nationalism. If you have the wrong passport, you are not to be trusted. This is a very different thing from safety, and Europeans should pay close attention to it.
And this is where one might as well stop reading.
This is standard practice for nation states. To call it racism is braindead and lazy.
PaulHoule 3 hours ago [-]
I am not a fan of the -ist and -ism constructions, see
though there are so many pernicious language patterns that projects like E-Prime (the verb “to be” goes to together with nominalization like peanut butter goes with jelly) are doomed
I agree with you on this point. This is a very weak line in an otherwise interesting post. Sometimes it feels like people have forgotten what nation states are.
haritha-j 3 hours ago [-]
Couldn't it be both? Standard practice in many nation states IS racism, and increasingly so in the US.
the_mitsuhiko 4 hours ago [-]
> This is standard practice for nation states. To call it racism is braindead and lazy.
Author here. Just because something is standard practice does not mean this should be a goal. I do not want to live in a world where the north star is dividing people based on their birthplace lottery. I might accept it as a temporary local maximum that countries are optimizing towards but that does not mean I have to subscribe to that as a general destination or even the most optimal one.
_DeadFred_ 7 minutes ago [-]
There is so much that goes into 'birthplace lottery' ignoring what created the place, how people/family got to that point, systems that attract people, systems that people created. It's such a non-serious ridiculous term that has zero understanding of outcomes. Can't wait until it dies as a buzzword/signal/whistle.
My family died to come to the USA (from Ireland) and multiple grandmothers arrived very young orphans.
My family sacrificed and clawed their way to get to a point to afford college for my father.
My country fought a war for independance and a civil war to establish the freedoms I enjoy.
All of those things were effortintentionwork and sacrifice by people. What they created wasn't a 'lottery land'. People have to plant the trees for others to sit under.
techblueberry 1 hours ago [-]
I get that many of us were all technologists here. But it’s a weird inclusion because - it seems to imply that this was your red line and when you became aware that this administration might be racist and nationalist?
I don’t think export controls on large language models would enter my top 50 in terms of actions this administration has taken to show that.
the_mitsuhiko 52 minutes ago [-]
> it seems to imply that this was your red line and when you became aware that this administration might be racist and nationalist?
If you read my blog you should have seen plenty of content before to get an idea why my red lines are. I even have a separate blog on that entirely: dark.ronacher.eu. My line is not here.
andsoitis 2 hours ago [-]
“Race”, such as it is, is orthogonal to place of origin.
If you’re arguing for abolishing the nation state or any concept the establishes right and obligations based on you being born there, then it would help your cause to not entangle it with racism. It would also be more interesting if you can explain how you imagine we’d even get to a place where there is only a single earthly jurisdiction with free movement etc. now THAT would be an interesting thought experiment.
the_mitsuhiko 12 minutes ago [-]
> If you’re arguing for abolishing the nation state or any concept the establishes right and obligations based on you being born there, then it would help your cause to not entangle it with racism.
Racism in one form or another is at the very core of the nation state. I disagree with the very notion that rights should be established with a razor that cuts by citizenship. It’s a blunt tool that might work to some degree but clearly the US shows that citizenship is an insufficient measurement to the positive contribution to GDP or entrepreneurship.
> It would also be more interesting if you can explain how you imagine we’d even get to a place where there is only a single earthly jurisdiction with free movement etc. now THAT would be an interesting thought experiment.
I don’t know the path to there. That does not mean I can’t see that as a goal worth perusing and to see things they take humanity further from that goal as a regression.
Technology transcends the narrow-mindedness of nationalism. We are one world. Nationalism is another tool for power-hungry people who thrive on a divide-and-conquer strategy.
All for one, and that's all.
Until then, I guess QR codes will have to do (risky business, though)[0]
[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/27/cybersecurity-scams-quishing...
Unfortunately, my own country is becoming more that way than I have ever seen it...
The reaction to the US government restricting access to foreign nationals is interesting to me. On the one hand, people rail against US imperialism. On the other, they get angry when they don’t have access to the tools of empire. It feels very “What have the Romans ever done for us?”
And this is where one might as well stop reading.
This is standard practice for nation states. To call it racism is braindead and lazy.
https://ericksonian.com/reverse-meta-model-nominalizations
though there are so many pernicious language patterns that projects like E-Prime (the verb “to be” goes to together with nominalization like peanut butter goes with jelly) are doomed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
Author here. Just because something is standard practice does not mean this should be a goal. I do not want to live in a world where the north star is dividing people based on their birthplace lottery. I might accept it as a temporary local maximum that countries are optimizing towards but that does not mean I have to subscribe to that as a general destination or even the most optimal one.
My family died to come to the USA (from Ireland) and multiple grandmothers arrived very young orphans.
My family sacrificed and clawed their way to get to a point to afford college for my father.
My country fought a war for independance and a civil war to establish the freedoms I enjoy.
All of those things were effort intention work and sacrifice by people. What they created wasn't a 'lottery land'. People have to plant the trees for others to sit under.
I don’t think export controls on large language models would enter my top 50 in terms of actions this administration has taken to show that.
If you read my blog you should have seen plenty of content before to get an idea why my red lines are. I even have a separate blog on that entirely: dark.ronacher.eu. My line is not here.
If you’re arguing for abolishing the nation state or any concept the establishes right and obligations based on you being born there, then it would help your cause to not entangle it with racism. It would also be more interesting if you can explain how you imagine we’d even get to a place where there is only a single earthly jurisdiction with free movement etc. now THAT would be an interesting thought experiment.
Racism in one form or another is at the very core of the nation state. I disagree with the very notion that rights should be established with a razor that cuts by citizenship. It’s a blunt tool that might work to some degree but clearly the US shows that citizenship is an insufficient measurement to the positive contribution to GDP or entrepreneurship.
> It would also be more interesting if you can explain how you imagine we’d even get to a place where there is only a single earthly jurisdiction with free movement etc. now THAT would be an interesting thought experiment.
I don’t know the path to there. That does not mean I can’t see that as a goal worth perusing and to see things they take humanity further from that goal as a regression.