[ExI] OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash

[John Clark]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 2:16 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

> *> * *John, you STILL don’t get it.  POTUS is* [blah blah blah]
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> *>> And **STILL** I receive no answer to my very simple question….*
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> *> What was your simple question please?*
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*And so the farce continues. To your credit you're reluctant to lie so you
don't wanna say "I do not think POTUS was talking nonsense" but the man is
the chief of your tribe so you're even more reluctant to speak the truth
and say "I do think POTUS was talking nonsense", thus you're only
alternative is to pretend that you don't know what I'm referring to. *


> >* Under the war powers resolution, POTUS can bomb Iran.*


*Huh? The war powers resolution is a federal law that was passed by
Congress in 1973, over President Nixon's veto. And it states that the
President must notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying U.S. forces
into hostilities. And military action is capped at 60 days without
specific Congressional authorization. And at any time Congress can pass a
resolution to immediately end all military action.  And more important than
any of that, the Constitution says that Congress and only Congress can
declare war. And you claim to be a stickler when it comes to the
constitution. *

*The current war in Iran may or may not turn out well I don't know, however
it is quite certainly unconstitutional. But of course these days a little
thing like unconstitutionality doesn't amount to much.*


*> the military has far more capability than you wish to imagine.*


*You view the military as super men and they are not, especially when it
comes to science. Consumer electronics has been outperforming military
electronics for at least the last 40 years. Until just two or three years
ago the computers in our ICBM nuclear missile silos were still using 8 inch
floppy discs!   *


> * > From that, we should be able to run about half a million of those
> Nvidea GPUs. *
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*Let's see, Nvidia's top of the line Vera Rubin Superchip costs about
$100,000, so half a million of them would cost 50 billion dollars. And
nobody noticed a chip purchase of that size? How on earth did Nvidia manage
to hide that in their financial statements? And that $50 billion figure
doesn't include the land, or the building, or the electrical power
distribution system, or the backup. Oh and a very elaborate and expensive
liquid cooling system is also required. And nobody noticed any of these
things? *

*And each chip uses 2.3 kW of electricity, so if a Nimitz aircraft carrier
was sitting dead in the water and was doing nothing but powering those
chips it could power about 80,000 of them, assuming it didn't have to run a
cooling system, which of course it would have to. And you want half a
million of them, and plans are already underway to build data centers with
well over one million Vera Rubin chips.*

*> They have known about the risk of AI longer than we have,*


*I don't know who "we" are that you're referring to but I had realized by
the late 1960s that it was only a matter of time before electronic
intelligence eclipsed biological intelligence, and Alan Turing certainly
knew that by the early 1950s, perhaps even by the mid-1930s. *

* John K Clark*
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