>So there you have it. On a panel on how Europe might build its own AI Stack, we heard highlights from the last decade of an intellectual orthodoxy that has contributed upstream to a politics through which Europe talks itself out of its own future. How to build the Eurostack? Their answers are: hold out for the eventual return of an idealized state socialism, declare that AI is racist statistical sorcery, “resist,” stop the construction of data centers and, of course, “communism.” By the end, I think the panel did a very good job exploring exactly why Europe doesn’t have the Eurostack that it wants, just not in the way the organizers intended.

What exactly is the goal of the morality game?

When it comes to adopting technology and catching up in development the Chinese don't give a damn about morality. They don't see western technology as some sort of imperialist or colonial plot that is going to subvert their nation, they ruthlessly copy, steal and acquire western technology/IP and think the westerners are stupid for letting them get away with it. You sanction them and prevent GPUs from entering their border? They'll thank you for supporting their domestic semiconductor industry.

If the Africans were as cutthroat as the Chinese, they wouldn't have anything to worry about.