[ExI] AI 2040

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, 16 July, 2026 10:54 AM
To: spike at rainier66.com
Cc: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Subject: Re: [ExI] AI 2040

 

 

 

On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 10:29 AM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:


 

Plan A

 

>…This Plan, the one they like the best and the one I hate the most, is to coordinate between the US and China to slow the development of AI…

 

The notion that the US and China are the AI players that matter understates Israel. 

 

>…Good point. 14 Israelis have won Nobel prizes and that is a huge number for such a tiny country.  

 

John K Clark

 

 

 

 

Ja there is that, but specifically in the area of software development, they are towering giants, never mind brains per capita (is there a Nobel prize for software (there aughta be.))  They figured out how to do some software things that the US couldn’t do, even though we yanks threw a a ton of money at it.  In the end, the Israelis won the contract. Their software tech is now part of their Iron Dome.  We built the rockets, the propulsion system, the vehicle controls hardware, the kill vehicle, the kill vehicle controls software, the mobile carrier, then Israelis wrote the system level control software and the simulator.  

 

That’s been over 25 years ago but I remember it like it was yesterday.  Oh that was a truly bad ego buster for yank controls engineers.  They whooped our gentile asses in system-level controls software, beat us in every competition in that category.  I was primarily a hardware guy, but I have friends who were most demoralized.  One left the company and went to live in Israel.  He never wrote to us.

 

spike  

 

 

 

 

 

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