[ExI] ai in education

Wed Mar 11 14:12:44 UTC 2026

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [ExI] ai in education

On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 9:28 AM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

> how about Iran’s new leader, Khamenei Junior? 

>…I don't have enough information to form an opinion, I know very little about him, I'm not up-to-date on Iranian internal politics so until two or three days ago I didn't even know he existed. Did you?

No.  Yesterday was when I heard of him for the first time.  Now we are being told he is far more fundamentalist and brutal than his father.  I don’t trust him.  

> How about the Israelis?  Their Iron Dome system seems very effective. 

>…What does the effectiveness of an armie's weapon have to do with its trustworthiness?  

We depend more than we realize on Israel for military technology.  Americans think we invent everything.  We don’t.  We developed a good modern fighter plane, then Israel made a bunch of modifications to it, mostly in software, which made it a lot better.  It then sold a lot of it back to the USA.  Likewise with the Iron Dome, which is being scaled up into the Golden Dome: the Israelis developed critical components of that software and lead the world in Fe-Au Dome control software.

This should come as no big surprise.  If one reads the list of names of the scientists recruited to Los Alamos in the early 1940s, it is clear most of the biggies were Jewish.  The jews gave us the atomic bomb, which resulted in a (relatively) peaceful second half of the 20th century. 

> Do you think that video of James Carville was real or AI?

>…I have no idea, nor do I care very much.  John K Clark

John, when I see or hear an anti-POTUS rant, that possibly AI generated Carville video comes to mind, complete with the Carvillain accent.

spike

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