[ExI] My prediction

[Darin Sunley]

Also, you didn't actually address my substantive point. Don't think I
didn't notice that.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 12:40 PM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 2:01 PM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> *> Trump has probably above average IQ ( a clinical moron can't run a real
>> estate company for decades, even poorly)*
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> *Calling him a clinical moron (and not just a moron) would probably be
> going too far because that term has a precise definition, clinical morons
> have an IQ between 50 and 70, and I would estimate that the IQ of the most
> powerful man in the world is about 80, maybe 85 when he was young and on a
> good day. *
>
> *And you CAN run a real estate company, poorly, for many decades if you
> inherit enough money from your daddy. And Trump has. If he had just used
> that money to buy treasury bills then on January 20 2017, when he first
> became president, he would've been considerably richer than he was. But of
> course today he's probably 10 or 20 times richer than he was then, I will
> leave it to your imagination to figure out how we manage to do that but I
> will give you a hint, it had nothing to do with skill. *
>
> *> modulo recent probable mild age-related declines.*
>
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> *The only way to reconcile POTUS having an "above average IQ" with his
> Greenland obsession, his pride at being able to tell the difference between
> a giraffe and a hippopotamus on a cognitive test, and
> "I Lowered Drug Prices By 1600 Percent" is that the poor man has developed
> an advanced case of Alzheimer's disease. *
>
> *John K Clark*
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>>>
>>> *Huh? There is already a deal! If a US company wants to invest in some
>>> project in Greenland they are perfectly free to do so, and both Denmark and
>>> Greenland would be delighted if they did. And if the US military wants to
>>> establish more military bases in Greenland they are perfectly free to do
>>> that too with no objection from NATO ally Denmark. There is absolutely no
>>> need for the US to rule Greenland! The people of Denmark don't want that
>>> and neither do the people who live in Greenland. *
>>>
>>> *> it would be a great place to set up data centers. *
>>>>
>>>
>>> *Iceland might be a good place to set up data centers because
>>> electricity is cheap thanks to geothermal power that is available there,
>>> that's why several bitcoin mining factories are already there. But
>>> Greenland would be a lousy place for a data center because unlike Iceland
>>> it has no geothermal energy so electricity is very expensive in Greenland,
>>> and there are very few high-capacity optical communication lines to that
>>> country. But if some company wants to build a data center in Greenland
>>> anyway there's nothing stopping them, they can start building one today.
>>> However nobody is doing so because they aren't crazy.  I can't say the same
>>> thing about the current President of the United States.*
>>>
>>> *Spike, if Joe Biden had won the 2024 election and his Alzheimer's
>>> disease had gotten much MUCH worse and he started threatening military
>>> force unless loyal NATO ally Denmark gave Greenland to the US, would you
>>> still be defending such a bazaar ultimatum with vigor? I have my doubts. *
>>>
>>>
>>>> *>  **I don’t know if that whole thing is an intentional distraction,
>>>> like the Alcatraz business.  What I heard but don’t know if it is true: a
>>>> suggestion to reopen Alcatraz as a prison was an intentional distraction
>>>> used to test AI: protest groups sent mail to the White House, responses
>>>> were generated by AI, printed and mailed, with little or no human oversight
>>>> or intervention.  There was never any real intention of reopening Alcatraz
>>>> as a prison.  Sounds plausible I suppose. *
>>>>
>>>
>>> *Good heavens! With all your years of experience with finding excuses
>>> for Mr. I Lowered Drug Prices by 1600 Percent, I would've thought you could
>>> do better than that. Convoluted explanations using dubious logic is not
>>> necessary, I postulate that the reason the man seems to be stupid is quite
>>> simple, he really is stupid.*
>>>
>>>
>>> *John K Clark*
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