[ExI] AI, deficit spending, Civil War, trivialities, and madness

[John Clark]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*>…You do if you insist on waiting till the last possible second to sell
>> your **B**itcoins. If you insist on wringing every last cent out of
>> your **B**itcoin …*
>> *John K Clark*
>
>
>  *> Last cent out of BitCoin?  The last cent IS a BitCoin.  The loss is
> from waiting too long to put every last “cent” into something that cannot
> be created in arbitrary quantities.  It wouldn’t need to be digital
> currency.*


*It's ironic you expressed that concern over deficit spending yesterday
because that was the same day that Google released Gemini-3 and it's not an
incremental improvement, it's a HUGE advance, the biggest jump in AI
ability since GPT-3 was released five years ago; Gemini now blows Grok,
Claude, GPT and every other AI out of the water. It's now very clear that
those who said AI improvement was about to hit a wall were wrong, and it's
also clear that soon millions of Americans are not only going to lose their
jobs, they're going to lose any ability that they previously had to make
money. *

*And Spike, you're still worried about trivialities like the budget
deficit. *

*Those millions of Americans are not going to quietly starve to death, so
if Civil War is to be avoided the nation's economic safety net is going to
need to be radically extended and it needs to be done quickly. But He Who
Must Not Be Named and his Republican stooges in Congress are moving in the
exact opposite direction and are dismantling the rudimentary safety net
that is already in place as rapidly as they can. It's madness!  *

*John K Clark   *
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