[ExI] Sell your Bitcoins!

Sat Jun 6 13:45:02 UTC 2026

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Sent: Saturday, 6 June, 2026 4:47 AM
To: spike at rainier66.com
Cc: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Subject: Re: [ExI] Sell your Bitcoins!

On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 4:06 PM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

> We don’t know what the next guy will do. 

>… the current POTUS vividly demonstrated to all on January 6 2020 that he doesn't give a shit about the Constitution…

But we do.  The constitution is what creates all that power you are imagining.  On 20 Jan 2029, SCOTUS swears in someone else.  It doesn’t matter where it takes place, it will.  It doesn’t matter who is holding the White House, for that is only an office building.

>> He might be anti-AI. 

>… by 2029 AI will probably be pretty unpopular with the general public…

Why do you think that?  The comment is worth exploring.

>… If you don't believe me just look at any of the televised cabinet meetings of the current POTUS and how all the members take turns to publicly prostitute themselves with smarmy sycophancy….

Televised?  So this is a TV program?  In any way related to actual cabinet meetings?  How?  How can we know?  We don’t?

>... I am reminded of what the character O'Brien says about power in the book 1984…  John K Clark

If the office had anything like the level of power you are imagining, that shutdown a few months ago would never have happened.  POTUS had majorities in both houses and still couldn’t get the government reopened.

But the important question is why do you think AI will be unpopular with the general public?  Many use it every day.  I use it many times every day.  Many of us in this forum do.  

spike

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