Notes on Sam Lamrabtehttps://samlamrabte.com/notes/Recent content in Notes on Sam LamrabteHugoenTue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000Reading Log: Three Capitals, One Chiphttps://samlamrabte.com/notes/tech-sovereignty/Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://samlamrabte.com/notes/tech-sovereignty/Trump took Silicon Valley to Beijing, the US reopened the chip tap, and Europe watched. A reading log on US-China-EU tech geopolitics, the Draghi report one year on, and where the money is actually going.The Digital Euro and Bank Disintermediation: The Oldest Tension in Moneyhttps://samlamrabte.com/notes/digital-euro/Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://samlamrabte.com/notes/digital-euro/From the stone money of Yap to ECB holding limits: why the design of a digital euro is a political choice about who keeps the ledger, not a technical one.The Cost of a Moving Deadline: Regulatory Whiplash as a Governance Problemhttps://samlamrabte.com/notes/regulatory-whiplash/Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://samlamrabte.com/notes/regulatory-whiplash/Two EU omnibus packages rewrote the AI and sustainability rulebooks in the space of months. The hidden cost isn’t the rules themselves, it’s what constant rule-changing does to the organisations trying to comply.Transparency in Transition: Lobbying Regulation after Brexithttps://samlamrabte.com/notes/lobbying-after-brexit/Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://samlamrabte.com/notes/lobbying-after-brexit/A working note on my current paper: when the UK left the EU it didn’t just leave a market, it left an oversight regime. What happens to lobbying transparency when the supranational referee walks off the pitch and the only rulebook left is a famously weak one?Play and destroy: AI algorithms and Mutual Assured Destructionhttps://samlamrabte.com/notes/ai-mutual-assured-destruction/Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://samlamrabte.com/notes/ai-mutual-assured-destruction/From Stanislav Petrov’s bunker to autonomous warfare: how AI complicates the Cold War doctrines of deterrence and Mutual Assured Destruction.AI between techno-enthusiasm and techno-skepticism: the new utopian electricity, or a potential apocalyptic threat?https://samlamrabte.com/notes/ai-electricity-or-threat/Tue, 05 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://samlamrabte.com/notes/ai-electricity-or-threat/AI as the new electricity, or as a new nuclear power? A case against the false dichotomy between techno-utopia and techno-dystopia.