[ExI] ai in education

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, 18 March, 2026 3:08 AM
To: spike at rainier66.com
Cc: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>; ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Subject: Re: [ExI] ai in education

 

 

On Sun, Mar 15, 2026 at 4:15 PM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

 

 > these Epstein files.  One really gets the feeling that the release of those were less about finding out who did bad things and more about finding out if one particular person did bad things. 

 

…

 

> Apparently he did not. 

 

>…If that was true he would've released the unredacted version of the files…

 

But if there was anything incriminating in there, his predecessor would have released everything.

…

 

  > The current POTUS will be gone in less than three years John.  

 

>…Wow, you are an optimist! I am more pessimistic…

 

Ya don’t say.  

 

>…Unfortunately the man seems to be pretty healthy. In my nightmares I envision him remaining in office till he's in his 90s, when I wake up in a cold sweat I tell myself he's not going to live that long, but then I remember that only the good die young. 

 

John K Clark

 

I have heard that, but it implies that as we grow older we become less good.  Surviving shouldn’t make us less good, but rather the opposite.  I often get the feeling that dying young causes one to be defined as good, after the fact, for the grieving relatives relate the positive aspects of our existence.  One wonders about the impact of AI creating a realistic avatar to carry on after we pass, as the Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams did.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20260330/4238ce95/attachment-0001.htm>