[teamspirit]

It feels like America innovates and the EU regulates.

Personally I’d like to see each do more of the other. But would that hamper the thing they’re doing better at? If America regulates more will there necessarily be less innovation?

For example, there are a number of bills in the CA legislature aimed at regulating the gen ai. I know that if CA makes these things illegal, they’ll just move to jurisdiction where it’s not.

[tway_GdBRwW]

A great deal of the innovation I've seen or read about has been pushing costs onto the public or other thefts of the commons. I see how this is a necessary feature of innovation (by definition "innovation" implies a new social contract over how a resource is used). But it is not clear this is a universal good, and the new contract often enriches a few at the expense of the many.

Good regulation defends the commons/the rights of the many.

Good innovation creates a better standard of living for the many.