One’s politeness becomes most evident when encountering someone they despise. Being polite to friends is easy. JD Vance had dinner last Monday with Macron in Paris and it was charming. Even when Macron asked him if he wanted to say a few words, the vice president elicited a laugh from those present: “Mister President, I’m here for the good company and free wine, but I have to earn my keep today.”
In my opinion, the only thing a little excessive in JD Vance’s speech was the exaltation of the French nation.
JD Vance has given the Europeans an earful of the kind of things they hate to hear. For starters, he told them that AI is not only good, but very good. And that the U.S. plans to develop AI until it’s coming out of their ears. And that they will get rich from AI, that they will create jobs from AI, and that their citizens will enjoy an AI revolution on a par with the steam engine.
He also told them that our European partners will tap into that same wealth and their citizens will benefit from the AI revolution, as long as they keep their grubby interventionist hands in their pockets. He said it so elegantly and so smilingly that Macron has not even noticed that it was not a suggestion, but a threat.
Most European politicians think that the people are stupid, companies are bad, and that the government is the only one that knows how to do things. They have thought this for years and it is surprising, because reality has taught them a thousand times over that citizens are much smarter than they are, that the government is incapable of doing things right, and that if countries stay afloat it is because businessmen are not as bad as politicians say they are. That’s why I loved listening to Vance saying it to all those dirty interventionists looking them straight in the eyes: let the people work in peace and mind your own business!
Somehow I seemed to be hearing the voice of William F. Buckley. “He told us that most of our civic problems were problems brought on or exacerbated by government, not problems that could be solved by government.” The New Yorker wrote years ago, “that, of course, is enduringly true. Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.”
There are two ways of doing things. One is the way the United States usually does them. And the other is the European hyper-regulation that costs a fortune, does not serve its purpose, and forces citizens to surf the Internet accepting so many windows with questions about data protection that some days I go online to have a quick look at the press and end up with a sprained second phalanx of my index finger after seven million clicks on detestable pop-ups brought to us by the obtuse laws of Brussels.
Vance slapped the Euro-idiots full on in the face: “Meanwhile, for smaller firms, navigating the GDPR means paying endless legal compliance costs or otherwise risking massive fines. Now for some, the easiest way to avoid the dilemma has been to simply block EU users in the first place. Is this really the future that we want?” Ha ha ha ha. I’d have paid to see their faces right then and there!
The Vice President’s speech on AI is one of the best that has been delivered in recent decades — we had altogether forgotten that the United States could have a Vice President who could speak without mispronouncing instead of one with a brain preserved in formaldehyde! He also offers novel perspectives, like when he highlights the fact that AI is a fascinating technology, because it does not rely only on the ingenuity of a programmer sitting at the computer, but “depends on those who work with their hands, even as robotics will change our factories.”
He insisted again and again. The AI revolution will not happen if hyper-regulation stifles it, but neither will AI “become dominated by massive players looking to use the tech to censor or control users’ thoughts.”
You know that European leaders are always worried about hate speech, which to them means anything that is not in the woke catechism. I myself am considering reporting them because I have noticed that they are deploying hate speech against my hate speech and my identity is being threatened.
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Vance has also been clear on the issue of AI ideological bias, cancellations, and hate speech: “We can trust our people to think, to consume information, to develop their own ideas, and to debate with one another in the open marketplace of ideas.”
In my opinion, the only thing a little excessive in JD Vance’s speech was the exaltation of the French nation. I understand that he did it out of politeness, as a guest in someone else’s house, but unfortunately, the France that the vice president finds so beautiful and worthy of pride, simply does not exist anymore. It has been ruined by multiculturalism, illegal immigration, and mediocre politicians like Macron and Hollande.
Although I have an idea for France and the other European nations led by asses, and I think JD Vance should have put it forward this week: how about putting artificial intelligence at the head of France’s government? Artificial intelligence will always be better than no intelligence at all.
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