[ExI] My prediction

[John Clark]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 2:59 PM Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:

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

*I guess your substantive point was so substantive that my IQ was not great
enough to grasp it. Please spell it out.  *


*John K Clark*





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