[ExI] ai in education

spike at rainier66.com spike at rainier66.com
Wed Mar 11 15:36:24 UTC 2026


 

 

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
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> We depend more than we realize on Israel for military technology.  Americans think we invent everything.  We don’t.  …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.  spike

 

>…Spike, that is all very nice but you haven't answered my question,  what does the effectiveness of an army's weapon have to do with its trustworthiness? 

 

John K Clark

 

 

With great power comes great responsibility.  The USA and Israel have developed the most advanced weapons ever seen (such as the fictitious sonic discombobulator.)  They have never used them against the good guys, but have have used them against the bad guys.  Result: those armies have proven themselves trustworthy.  So far.

 

AI is new.  We are told that it is kind of a fancy thing, and that it is two letters.  OK then, I feel much better.  Or not, but anyone with sufficient funding can set up a data center and create one.  Anyone (with lots of money) can become a new superpower.  Money creates AI and AI empowers money.  It isn’t just about armies anymore.

 

AI is new but it already exists.  The companies that have it have not used it against us.  Yet.  That we know of.  I don’t trust that they will continue to not use them against us eventually.  

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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