alt Hacker News> And over time, the technology to do this will become cheap and readily available for us to do so.
But then the English models will be even better and you'll be back to square one. My guess is that things are going to become more and more American. If you assume that "culture" is a resource like "microchips", then from economic point of view it makes sense to have one country specialize in producing it, and the rest just consume. This is why when you turn on the main radio station of a random country, you're so likely to hit American music.
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> then from economic point of view it makes sense to have one country specialize in producing it, and the rest just consume
And, for exactly the same reasons as Europeans need to have sovereign compute to protect against economic imperialism, it is also essential to maintain local culture in order to avoid the great replacement of everything with Americanisms.
Yes, it requires pushing against the economics. But you have to do that if you believe that culture has any value per se at all.
> If you assume that "culture" is a resource like "microchips"
I do not. American culture exports American values, which are not universal. Simplest examples being the attitudes towards violence and nudity, which are very different in Europe, and vary within Europe as well.
'Only one country should export culture, for economic efficiency' is the kind of take that the Norweigians (and everyone else) would like to protect themselves from.