[ExI] Legendary Battleship was diamandis commentary

[John Clark]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2026 at 4:23 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

 A battleship need not be large to do what it needs to do.  But it could
> have a very large escort vehicle along to draw fire.  We don't know what
> the naval engineers are doing.


*Thanks to cheap intelligent drones all large surface ships are becoming
vulnerable, and drones are becoming cheaper and more intelligent every day.
The Trump Class battleship is not going to become operational until 2036 at
the very earliest; if we ever have to defend Taiwan, the place where all
are most advanced AI chips are made, it would not be of any use because a
horde of cheap but brilliantly intelligent Chinese drones would sink a
Trump class battleship so fast it would bounce off the bottom. And even if
we had a Trump battleship today it would be useless in Trump's current Iran
war, in fact it's very difficult to think of a hypothetical where it would
be useful, where it could accomplish something that we can't already do.
So I very much doubt that a single new battleship will ever be built, but
we'll probably waste 10 or $15 billion before a president that is less
stupid than the current one and is tired of the endless cost
overruns cancels the entire project. *

> *We don't know what the naval engineers are doing.*


*But we do know what an 80 year old senile Commander In Chief who loves
having his name on big things has ordered his naval engineers to design,
and we know what sort of ship the idiot wants the congress to pay for. *

*John K Clark *



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