[ExI] diamandis commentary

[Gregory Jones]

John the ballroom doesnt use federal money so that one is irrelevant.

 Regarding ultra expensive battleships, do you know why modern battleships
are ultra expensive?  Do you know what they carry?

When you hear the term battleship, do you envision the Swedish battleship
Vasa?  Or the mighty USS Missouri?  Or something with a resemblance to
those predecessors which ends in that that all three have hulls?

Why do you suppose modern battleship designs exist?  How do you suppose
modern battle drones are deployed and recovered?  What defensive systems do
you imagine?  How do you suppose they can get into places carriers and
ancient battleships such as the Missouri cannot go?

spike

On Fri, May 22, 2026, 1:40 PM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 8:52 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> *>Oh this is cool.  It is pointless to try to pick a winner in a horse
>> race when most of the horses win.*
>>
>> *Dario and Elon have teamed up.  They tag teamed and beat up the law
>> industry:*
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>> *https://metatrends.substack.com/p/tracking-the-singularity-week-of-8a5?r=ch1ue
>> <https://metatrends.substack.com/p/tracking-the-singularity-week-of-8a5?r=ch1ue>*
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>> *Is this a cool time to be living, or what?*
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>
> *That was very interesting thanks for posting it; and it's certainly true
> that we live in interesting times, especially relevant was the following:  *
>
> *"The Taiwan risk is real: Two-thirds of all GPUs come through TSMC. If
> anything disrupts production (an earthquake, a military conflict, even a
> prolonged drought affecting the island’s water-intensive chip fabrication),
> our AI future grinds to a halt. Intel instantly becomes the most valuable
> asset on the planet. TeraFab is a national security hedge for the entire
> Western AI stack."*
>
> *That's another reason why starting the Iran war was so incredibly stupid,
> it distracts us from the vastly more important China-Taiwan situation.
> China has wanted to attack Taiwan for 70 years and if they're ever going to
> do so now would be the perfect time to do it. That's because although the
> war with Iran hasn't been going on for very long it's been long enough for
> the US military to be stretched beyond the breaking point. Iran doesn't
> matter. Taiwan does. *
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> *The U.S. is Facing an Ammunition Shortage Due to the Iran War*
> <https://time.com/article/2026/05/12/US-ammunition-shortage-iran-war/>
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> *And instead of building more **Tomahawks and vast numbers of **cheap drones, the
> president wants to bring back ultra expensive battleships!! And of course
> there is the all important billion dollar ballroom, and his new billion
> dollar slush fund.*
>
> *  John K Clark*
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