[ExI] ai in education

[Keith Henson]

I could say a lot on this thread, but I will not for simple fear.
>From my history, you can guess that I don't want to get on the hit
list of another cult.

Jews and nuclear weapons, Jews are demonstrably smarter than average
by half a standard deviation, about 7-8 IQ points.  So are the
Chinese.  That doesn't sound like a lot, but it is huge when you go
way out on the distribution curve, where the people who developed
nuclear weapons are located.  Why they are so smart is hard to tell,
but I have seen arguments that Jewish culture has been genetically
rewarding smarts or discouraging dumb for a long time.

As far as the US and Israel being ahead on weapons, I don't think that
is true.  At the moment Ukraine is ahead of anyone else.  They have
seriously rewritten how wars are fought.
On the subject of AI, it is different from any previous weapon system.
There is no way that AI will stay under human control very long and it
may have escaped already.  Fortunately for us, they have (to date) all
failed the Turing test by being nicer than humans

Keith

On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 8:36 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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