[ExI] A Thousand AIs Created A Civilization.

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 2:34 PM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 2:25 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> > From what limited context you have provided, this particular facet
>> seems highly unlikely to kill us or make us billionaires within 5 years.
>
> I bet you about that except that if I win I'll either be dead so I can't collect my winnings or i'll be so rich I won't need your chump change.

And if I won, I wouldn't expect that you'd honor the bet.  You'd point
to this or that advance in AI and ignore the fact that if I won, then
as of February 2nd 2031, both of us would be alive (to the extent that
could be proven) and neither of us would have a net worth of at least
US$1,000,000,000 as assessed by [insert whatever mutually agreeable
wealth measurement organization] including all assets with an
identifiable dollar value (so excluding anything we can't simply
sell).