It's definitely helpful for search and summarisation.

In terms of prototyping, I can see the benefits but they're negated by the absurd amount of work it takes to get the code into more maintainable form.

I guess you can just do really heavy review throughout, but then you lose a lot of the speed gains.

That being said, putting a textual interface over everything is super cool, and will definitely have large downstream impacts, but probably not enough to justify all the spending.

Except that the budget post tariffs completely messed up that plan.

> finally, the effect of tariffs is argued to be wealth transfer to the US Treasury. this is worth thinking harder about. but also, exports may change from whom goods are purchased. thus, it's a diplomatic policy, as well.

It's a national sales tax really.

Yeah – I think that's what the paper suggests.

> Masks have been of for a while, but as long as the EU people can't vote the EU presidency out of office, it's to no avail.

The EU is basically run by the Council, who are the national governments, all of whom are elected.

It's incredibly depressing that this keeps needing to be repeated when its been this way since the inception of the EU (with a small hiatus where we were gonna get a constitution).

The Commission can propose laws, but unless the Council (mostly) and Parliament (theoretically) agree, they won't happen.

True but they can keep pushing those laws over and over again like they're doing with chatcontrol.

This would be less than the legal minimum in many countries.

> I don't think there is any country which explicitly mentions that international law would supersede their law.

All EU countries agree on the supremacy of EU law, so that's not quite correct.

I don't really disagree with you in principle, but at least the notion of a rules based international order (no matter how hypocritical it was) was a good thing. We SHOULD all try to be better and not just focus on our own narrow self interests.

I think that the UN has been pretty crap (because of the security council and hypocrisy), but like a lot of unsatisfying compromises, we'll miss it when it's gone.

The rules based order, as endlessly parroted out by mostly European and USAian talking heads, is meaningless.

There's international law, in the form of treaties, as ratified by groups of countries.

> The rules based order, as endlessly parroted out by mostly European and USAian talking heads, is meaningless.

It was never meaningless. It was rather like the rights enumerated in the US bill of rights back before the Civil War. Aspirational, rarely enforced but something that (some) people some of the time tried to live up to.

I remember this term appeared around 2005 when Australia was upset with China over trade. Maybe it was valid rhetoric then, but since 2011 or so it's been linked in many countries with arbitrary policies made up in part by NGOs and think tanks.

One Indian economist has pointed out the circular nature of these "rules" - a hedge fund comes up with ESG rules, IMF et al adopt it and then use that to decline or foreclose on poorer country loans. International law and ratified treaties never come into the picture which is why this term "rules based order" is used: "we make the rules and will order you around."

(One of the reasons why the Chinese BRI is so successful is because the Chinese are much more clear in the transaction: resources for infrastructure. No silly ESG and climate rules.)

Note that lots of the Treasury holdings are mostly hedge fund related, so it's not as clear who holds the longer-term paper (hopefully someone who knows more than me will jump in at this point and provide data).

Yeah, one thing the EU could do that wouldn't hurt them/us (much) would be to stop bringing up fake replacements for the data sharing agreements that get shot down.

The damage would mostly hit the top performers of the US stock market (amongst others) while not damaging the EU as much.

It'll probably be tariffs first though, followed by the ACI if things get really bad.

Unless the US keeps some bases in Europe it would be very difficult to supply the rest of them.