[ExI] Sell your Bitcoins!

[John Clark]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2026 at 2:28 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:


> *>>…Spike…in a world of advance AI, and probably Drexler style
>> Nanotechnology, you don't think we will be able to find enough wealth to
>> save tens of millions **of the citizens of the most powerful country in
>> the world from starving to death, or to guarantee that all its citizens
>> receive healthcare as good as that of every other technologically advanced
>> country in the world? *
>
>
> *> This brings us one step closer.  In your vision, the requisite wealth
> is found.  We find enough wealth.  OK then.  Where?  Whose wealth do we
> find? *
>

*Whose wealth? If POTUS has half a brain he will realize that at least a
part of the GARGANTUAN amount of newly generated wealth should belong to
the tens of millions of American citizens who in just a few years will be
educated, young, unemployed and unemployable, hungry, and very VERY angry;
because the first target of their rage will be the billionaire class of
which he and Elon Musk are the most prominent, and hated, members. However,
POTUS seems to possess only about a third of a brain, and I'm sure he knows
next to nothing about the French revolution and how that turned out, so
both he and the nation may be in deep trouble.  *

*> We didn’t address climate change in any meaningful way because we didn’t
> find any wealth to pay for it*


*I said it before I'll say it again, it's silly to compare something as
trivial as climate change with the AI revolution, the most significant
event since the Cambrian Explosion. And even the environmentalists never
claimed that solving climate change would generate wealth, in fact most of
the proposed solutions would decrease it, but they insisted we should do it
anyway.  *

* > **Her suggestion:  JUST PAY FOR IT! OK then.  How?*


*OK Spike it's time for you to answer my question. I wanna hear your
scenario; we have achieved superhuman AI and Nanotechnology and yet it will
be impossible to prevent millions of Americans from starving to death
because it would just be too expensive, and we can't even give them as good
healthcare as every other industrial nation on earth was able to do for
their citizens even in the pre-AI age. Other than the AI wanting those
people to die, give me some details, why will it be impossible to save
them?*


*Where will the money come from? *

*Government printing presses. *

*That will cause inflation.*
*Not if wealth can be created faster than printing presses can print, and
in the new age we are entering it can be. *

*  John K Clark*
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