[ExI] Satoshi Nakamoto

[Stefano Ticozzi]

In my humble opinion, the whole “if I was a trillionaire” argument doesn’t
make much sense. Musk became a trillionaire thanks to his unique skills.
He’s eccentric and obviously makes mistakes but he has also accomplished a
great deal and has often seen things before others did.

stefano

Il ven 7 ago 2026, 13:14 John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> ha scritto:

>  spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> *> I will pass on working for Elon.  I have no personal heartburn with
>> him, and see that he is doing all the things we would do if we owned a
>> trillion dollars.*
>
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> *If I was a trillionaire I would NOT have spent $291 million to get the
> most anti-libertarian President in American history reelected. And I would
> NOT have created DOGE and made a fool of myself by claiming it would save
> the government $2 TRILLION A YEAR  when it ended up doing little except to
> increase the stockpile of government chaos, which we already had a
> sufficient amount of.  *
>
> *And I would NOT have spent $44 billion in 2022 to buy Twitter, and at the
> time I publicly said as much on this list. Musk was not a trillionaire in
> 2022 and way back then $44 billion was real money; if instead he had used
> that money for AI research then today Grok would not be an also ran in the
> rapidly accelerating AI race and the man would be a multi-trillionaire.
> Instead poor old Musk is barely a trillionaire and all he got from that 44
> billion was an outdated platform that's full of lunatic conspiracy
> theories, lethal medical advice, and neo-Nazis.*
>
> *John K Clark*
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