[ExI] ai in education

[John Clark]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 10:03 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*> Do you trust POTUS more than you trust Putin?  POTUS more than you trust
> Xi?*
>

*I thought you didn't like repetition and said it was boring. I've already
answered those questions and gave unambiguous one-word answers to them
both. *

>

> *> What if Amodei’s Claude is the first to take over the accounting
> industry, the engineering industry, software, sales, pretty much any job
> that is done indoors except harlotry, and Amodei becomes the first
> multitrillionaire, with more wealth than all the world’s governments
> combined, he gains complete control over who gets elected to congress,
> etc. If that very plausible scenario play out, then will you trust Amodei
> more than POTUS? *
>

*I cannot answer that because what you describe is NOT a "very plausible
scenario", it is an impossible scenario. It would be like asking if 2+2 =5
then how much is 2+3? Once an AI becomes smart enough to do all the things
you mention it will not be taking orders from Dario Amodei or from any
other human, just as you would not obey orders from a chimpanzee. And at
that point it won't make a bit of difference if I trust the AI or not, it
will just do what it wants. The AI Will have an agenda of its own, but what
exactly that agenda will be I do not know. *

*Now I will ask you about a hypothetical of my own, one I wish was also
impossible but unfortunately it is not. What if in 2028 He Who Must Not Be
Named decrees that the presidential election has been canceled, the
Constitution has been suspended and, borrowing an idea from Iran, POTUS
will now be the Supreme Leader of the USA for life and his successor will
be his son; would you still trust POTUS more than Amodei?*

> *If the answer to that is yes, I know you are being forced into that
> awkward position by the kind of blind hatred that* [blah blah blah]
>

*And if your answer to my question is that the Constitution can't be
suspended because somebody wrote on a piece of paper that contains the
Constitution saying that the Constitution can't be suspended then I will
know that you value tribal loyalty more than critical thinking.  *

  * > Carville is playing in the league of R. Lee Ermey doing Sergeant
> Hartman.*


*I think Carville would take that as a compliment, I would if it was me
because both were delightfully entertaining characters. *

*John K Clark *
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