Several people I respect are in favor of European federalization.
France poses as the worse case scenario: a federal union where countries are forced to follow each others bad financial decisions. Strong deficits, no growth, political unrest.
With so many dangers, I prefer competition from different EU economies, so that we can copy from the better ones. It’s possible under federalization, but the incentives aren’t there atm.
Denmark is raising its retirement age to 70. French election candidates pledge to reducing it to 60 or 62.
Denmark's debt to GDP ratio is 27%; France's is 117%.
You reap what you sow.
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Denmark is raising its retirement age to 70. French election candidates pledge to reducing it to 60 or 62.
Denmark's debt to GDP ratio is 27%; France's is 117%.
You reap what you sow.
cnn.com/2025/05/23/business/…
The sheer will and violence VCs expect of their dream entrepreneur
Clear and obvious
Qualcomm CEO reveals AI companies want phones running 100-billion-parameter models continuously by 2028--and confirms some are building phones
Cristiano Amon: “I have to be careful not to disclose names, but some AI companies—some of the companies at the forefront of AI—are telling Qualcomm, ‘By 2028, I need to make sure that I have the ability to run at least a 100-billion-parameter model in a phone, and I need to have this thing running kind of all the time.’”
Alex Heath: “So you’re saying there are AI companies that are talking about—”
Cristiano Amon: “Well, AI companies are starting to do phones.”
Front: 4/10
Side: 6/10
Back and top: 9/10
Jaguar has just officially unveiled the production version of its new EV called the Type 01.
• Starting price: $130,000
• Range: 400 miles (EPA)
• 118 kWh battery
• 0-60 mph: 3.2sec
• Top speed: 150 mph
• Peak charging speed: 350 kW
• Four-seat luxury GT
• 1,015 HP
• 850V electrical architecture
• Adds 200 miles of range in 13 mins
• Curb weight: 5,500+ lbs
• Most powerful Jaguar road car ever
• Floating center console that extends from the front of the car all the way to the rear. Jaguar calls it a "spine." They will only offer this layout.
• Long front hood
• 6.5 deg of rear-wheel steering. Same turning circle of a BMW 3 Series.
• 23" wheels
• Drag coefficient of 0.23Cd
• Orders open early 2027
• First deliveries expected in second half of 2027
• Jaguar says this new EV represents the future of the company.
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Mercedes is going down the same dark path.
Better than BMW, no doubt, but still those front grills are ugly as ass.
They’re realllllly pushing me towards Tesla
I am now looking for the home addresses of all the data center builders
What’s the human spark?
Humans started doing transplants of vital organs in 1954, and we didn’t stop being humans because of it. Doctors transplanted kidneys, lungs, pancreas, hearts, livers, hands, faces, penises, and uteruses.
We also invented machines and drugs to replace lungs, kidneys, ears, hearts, livers, and we are still humans with them.
We also have gene-editing tools (some of them dangerous), and surely enough those born out of it will still be humans. Cloning is possible. Soon enough there will be artificial wombs and a million other things. It’s all moving quite fast.
All this medicine and robotics means we are born, but also increasingly made. And our understanding of the human body also tells us we are made of billions of small machines called cells. Perhaps there isn’t anything else besides it.
IMO the only thing that makes us humans is how we behave. We are smarter than any other being we know, and when we conquered basic living, we started pursuing beautiful and horrible things— art, sports, exploration, science, love, war, conquest, etc.
We are now creating these new smart machines. They don’t behave like us, and really they can’t because they have no body needs like ours, no sense of physical and social individuality as we do, then aren’t born as we are and don’t age either, and because their smarts aren’t exactly like our brains. At the current state they’re faster in many things and slower in other things.
It’s clear to me that over the next 100 years, in the absence of an Armageddon, somehow we will make things that will act like some human would.
Some of them will be pure machines, others might be humans created or edited. It’s all a bit daunting to me, but it all seems inevitable.
We will also advance medical transplants and therapies and we will live longer and more predictably, and continue the progress we have been doing for the last centuries. In some sense we will be slightly more machine-like.
What is clear to me is that “the human spark” is approaching replication, and if our human nature takes towards its good side, we will be better off with this technology. As it has always been. It’s all up to us.
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.