[ExI] Satoshi Nakamoto

[John Clark]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2026 at 8:02 AM Stefano Ticozzi <stefano.ticozzi at gmail.com>
wrote:

*> 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.*
>

*Unlike the current President of the United States Elon Musk is neither an
imbecile nor an ignoramus, he is a very intelligent man, but he is not as
intelligent as he thinks he is; at times he has demonstrated very bad
judgment. And Musk has some very serious character flaws which is
concerning because he is the richest man in the world. *

*John K Clark  *






> 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.*
>>
>>
>> *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 billion was an outdated platform that's full of lunatic conspiracy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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