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Re:EU urged to protect grassroots AI research or risk losing... by bborud on Thursday May 04, 2023 @05:39PM (#35822450)
I can see how you might think that. It is easy to think that adequate wealth is a goal in itself. Especially if you either do not have adequate wealth or you become caught up in securing that level of wealth even after you are there. Wealth gives you the things you really care about. Such as freedom and security which ultimately enables happiness and contentment. (Enables, not provides).

It is easier to see from the flip side: if you lack freedom and security, what good is wealth? You're just a prisoner with a somewhat nicer cage. If you see wealth as a goal in itself, then it just means you probably haven't actually got a plan for why you are chasing wealth.

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Re:EU urged to protect grassroots AI research or risk losing... by ActorNightly on Monday May 08, 2023 @04:01PM (#35866325)
Pretty sure US is the most "free" country by standard metrics. You can do a lot of stuff in US that you cannot do in other countries.
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Re:EU urged to protect grassroots AI research or risk losing... by bborud on Monday May 22, 2023 @03:49PM (#36035839)
It doesn't matter what you are "pretty sure" about. There are organizations that try to quantify these things and produce concrete metrics, and it might surprise you to learn that they don't necessarily agree with your world view.
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