Every other week, this remarkably low-IQ take makes the rounds. What Europe has, you ask?
1) The mathematical bedrock that made AI possible to conceive in a first place: Bayesian probability, Gaussian distributions, Markov chains, Computability theory, Universal computation + AI concept (Turing), the foundations of Information theory - ALL European.
2) Deep core learning: Backpropagation, LSTM networks, the freaking World Wide Web, DeepMind / AlphaFold - ALL European.
3) The hardware (you know, the actual physical part which makes the theory and software possible to begin with): EUV lithography - 100% monopoly (ASML, Netherlands), EUV optics - the mirrors (Carl Zeiss AG, Germany), CPU architecture for everything else (ARM Holdings, UK, Cambridge), Semiconductor R&D (IMEC, Belgium)
All of these low-IQ people can only list ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, Gemini as "American" but they omit either on purpose or because they are low-IQ that every single one of those runs on chips made with Dutch machines, containing German optics, on British CPU architectures, trained on data from a Swiss-invented internet, using algorithms pioneered by European researchers.
Are Americans superior at productising? Yes. The civilisational infrastructure underneath them is largely European.
So to answer that stupid question, what Europe has? Everything. It literally has everything.
This is a salt lake. Not a canvas, not a darkroom experiment. Just minerals and water and heat, left alone long enough to figure out what they want to be. We spend so much time trying to create beauty. The outback just leaves it lying around where nobody's looking.
SOMETHING IS HAPPENING ACROSS THIS PLANET THAT THE NEWS WILL NEVER COVER.
PEOPLE ARE LEAVING.
NOT MOVING TO A DIFFERENT CITY. NOT CHANGING JOBS.
LEAVING THE SYSTEM ENTIRELY. AND BUILDING SOMETHING THE SYSTEM CANNOT REACH.
Right now on every continent human beings are acquiring land.
Learning to grow food. Collecting rainwater. Generating their own energy.
Finding each other deliberately and building communities around shared values instead of shared zip codes.
It is happening in Kentucky and Costa Rica and Portugal and Thailand and South Africa and New Zealand. Canada the USA and the rest of the globe.
Quietly. Simultaneously. Without coordination. As if something is calling them all at once.
This is what the new earth actually looks like.
Not a political movement. Not a protest. Not a petition.
Families waking up before dawn to tend gardens that feed them.
Children growing up knowing where food comes from and how to grow more of it.
Current living Elders passing plant medicine, food, and Spiritual knowledge that the industrial age tried to make obsolete.
Communities making decisions together around fire instead of through screens.
Within a generation the landscape of human life will look unrecognizable.
Not because of government policy or technological breakthrough.
Because enough individuals made the same quiet decision I will not participate in a system that requires my dependency to function.
History has always been changed by the ones who stopped asking permission and started building.
The children being born into these communities will never know what it means to wonder where their food comes from.
They will never know what it means to trade their hours for a number in an account controlled by people they never chose.
They will never know the specific loneliness of living surrounded by people and having no one who actually knows them.
They will grow up sovereign. And they will build a world that reflects it.
The system is not being defeated.
It is being made irrelevant.
You cannot sustain a control structure over people who do not need what you are offering.
You cannot keep a population dependent that has learned to provide for itself.
The new earth is not coming after the collapse. It is being built during it.
somewhere right now someone just bought their first seed packet.
someone just made an offer on land they will never mortgage their soul to own.
someone just said out loud for the first time I am done.
and the world quietly became a little less controllable.
Join us.
@ericzakariasson Would be a lot better if we can update / replace function it calls on runtime though. Similarly, if we add a print / echo statement to steer the agent it does not receive this feedback. This works in vscode but not in cursor.
@cursor_ai@cursor When an agent calls a command and I add echo or print or change that command it does not work and just executes original. This is not happening in vscode. This seems like a serious bug that is unchanged for a long time.