[ExI] ai in education

[John Clark]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 7:47 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:


*>>>Again you ask me to compare incomparables.*
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>> *>>…I was asking a question about trust, why is that incomparable? I can
>> trust or distrust a person, an animal, a nation, a corporation or even the
>> weather. So why can't I compare the level of trust between a company and an
>> army?*
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> *> More relevant is to compare trust in companies and trust in armies. *
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*How on earth is that more relevant? The matter at hand is the relative
trust between the US military under the command of the current POTUS and a
private corporation called Anthropic. And of the two I trust Anthropic more
because I know for a fact that the leader of Anthropic has told far fewer
lies than the current leader of the US military. Of course that is a very
low bar to pass because almost every human being on the planet has told
fewer lies then You Know Who; yes Putin and Xi and Kim Jong Un have told
more lies, but the complete list of those who have beaten He Who Must Not
Be Named in this achievement would not be much longer than that.*

*> I trust the US army more than I trust the Chinese army or the Russian
army.  Do you? *

*Yes, but that is another very low bar.  *


> > *I trust POTUS more than I trust Putin or Xi.  Do you? *
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*Yes (but again that is a very low bar) and I don't think it's fair to
compare him with Hitler either, I think he's more like Mussolini.  *

*> I don’t trust any of the AI companies.*
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*I don't completely trust any organization that is large and powerful, but
for some my level of trust is large but not infinite, and for others it is
small or nonexistent. *

*John K Clark *
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