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Funny how all the rules of capitalism break down as you approach really big sums of money.

What's wrong with a cruise missle being defined as a robot? It is one.

Also I'd argue that a CNC machine is a robot as well, no different than a programmable industrial robotic arm.

IMHO, a dishwasher isn't a robot because it is neither versatile in its objective, nor programmable.

Americans please stop sanctifying Europe/Europeans. It's annoying.

The French have a reputation. And the British although they are part of Europe, not the EU.

Just happy it's not another AI related prize.

I agree with the top 3, but out of curiosity I checked all the previous cities I have lived in and I don't think their metrics make much sense. I'm not going to name cities, of course, but in particular, "quality of life" is deeply flawed. I mean, just look at their ranking for "quality of life". Maybe "quality of life for a senior local person" would fit that ranking. Otherwise none of those top cities are appealing to me, as a seasoned expat.

Many people are struggling to afford the living room, even if they can afford the furnishings.

Rent, food, transport and healthcare are still very significant costs for the average person, and those are just the basics.

For some reason people never mention this, but aren't there also much more people graduating with CS degrees than ever before?

Actually Eastern Europe is doing immigration despite what headlines you might be reading. Lots of Indians and Filipinos and Latin Americans.

I know what they want to say, but I think their argument is quite weak, because essentially you have US industries that aren't tech. American workers still get higher salaries than elsewhere in the OECD and growth in such industries isn't out competing those same industries in other OECD countries. In fact many industries are lagging behind. So actually US workers are being paid more not less than elsewhere.

Then you have tech. In tech, US workers are again paid more than in other OECD countries. But growth in tech is just insane and it makes a huge percentage of the GDP growth. And there aren't a whole lot of tech workers as a percentage of the total workforce. So although tech workers are paid a whole lot more than in other OECD countries, they aren't capturing as much of the growth of the tech industry.

So really this is an argument that tech workers in the US should be paid even more, and I don't think that sells so well as the populist argument that the authors intended to make.

And to me saying, that an autoworker that works for Ford, is not capturing the GDP growth that is generated by Google, is nonsensical.

This is not a critque of the work, but I have now been often encountering category theory in many of the research topics I'm working on, and even as somebody who majored in math, I sort of feel like it doesn't add much. I know ML frameworks intimately, and you really don't need category theory to describe them. But this is maybe (probably) a failure of mine, because I have not yet groked what category theory is really bringing to the table.

Yes, unfortunately it's very easy to buy our bureaucrats both at national and EU level. Heck most of them style themselves to be Americans! You make very good points.