[ExI] A Thousand AIs Created A Civilization.

[John Clark]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 2:43 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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. *


*No, I would honor my bet, I've lost bets before and I've always paid up.
The criteria is clear cut, if you won that would mean in 5 years you would
still be alive but you would not be a billionaire or the equivalent; that
is to say there would still be many material things that exist and that you
would like to have but that you cannot because they are too expensive. I
would pay up unless I physically could not because I am dead; unless Mr.
Jupiter Brain liked you more than he liked me so He let you live but made
sure I assumed room temperature.*

*John K Clark    See what's on my new list at  Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>*



> 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).
>
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