[ExI] Legendary Battleship was diamandis commentary

[John Clark]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 11:21 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> consider what the US Navy has accomplished in the short span of the
> conflict with Iran.*


*Right, the U.S. Navy opened the Strait of Hormuz for shipping causing
gasoline prices to plummet, and produced a regime change in Iran .... Oh
wait...*

*John K Clark*



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> > *On Behalf Of *Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Legendary Battleship was diamandis commentary
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> On Fri, Jun 5, 2026, 11:00 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> *I can assure you, congress is not going to fund weapon systems which are
> ineffective or obsolete.*
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> >…Given how often they have before, even without the influence of Trump
> (looking at the span of time between when Congress had its first session
> and when Trump first took office), what do you base that assurance on?
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> Adrian consider what the US Navy has accomplished in the short span of the
> conflict with Iran.  From what I can tell, the score so far is 60-0.  Iran
> is claiming to have damaged or destroyed many US ships.  They threaten to
> kill any Iranian citizen who claims otherwise.  We have a free press, but
> they don’t.  None of our ships are missing or damaged.  Our navy is
> claiming to have destroyed about 60 Iranian navy ships.  We welcome our
> press to refute the claim.  None have.
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> This one-sided result apparently deterred China from invading Taiwan.  But
> I had another idea on that failure of China to invade, based on
> evolutionary psychology, which I invite comment in this forum.
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> Darwinian evolution has a difficult time explaining altruism, but Dawkins’
> theory explains that genes shape our attitudes and actions (of course they
> do.)  If sacrificing oneself for two siblings or four first cousins or
> eight second cousins (etc.) makes sense from the POV of the gene.  Consider
> China, which strongly encouraged a one-child policy in the 1960s.  A
> generation grew up with no siblings, then a generation with no first
> cousins, followed by a generation with no second cousins.  This makes the
> young Chinese soldier most reluctant to sacrifice himself.
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> A Chinese government, recognizing this problem, refrains from war.  Being
> overly aggressive might cause Dear Leader to lose his Dear Head.
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