[ExI] Recursive AI self improvement

[John Clark]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2026 at 1:25 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:


> *> I sold my Nvidia shares in September, but now they are looking very
> attractive for a buy back.  If anyone has thoughts to share on that, I am
> listening.  I am also attentive to any plausible proposal for Alaskan data
> centers.  John how do we take advantage of Anthropic’s self improvement? *


*I held on to my Nvidia, TSMC and ASML stock because I don't pretend to be
able to predict the short term gyrations of the stock market, but I think I
can predict that if new huge data centers are not built in Alaska they will
certainly be built somewhere because no matter what happens you will never
have too much computational capacity; although anthropic's recently
reported acceleration in Artificial Intelligence was not the result of more
hardware but of greatly improved software efficiency.*

*AI is getting all the headlines but there is something else going on,
improvements in Quantum Computers. IBM and Microsoft, which I also have
stock in, say they will have a large fault correcting quantum computer by
2029, as does a small company called Quantinuum
<https://www.quantinuum.com/blog/build-for-the-fault-tolerant-era-with-quantinuum-nexus>.
And The US Department of Energy is launching something they call
the Quantum Genesis initiative
<https://www.energy.gov/science/articles/energy-department-announces-initiative-create-and-deploy-worlds-first>
which
is a competition to build one by 2028.*



> *> My interest isn’t only making money. Achieving immortality for all
> humanity would be cool as well.*
>

*Me too. Being rich and living forever would be better than a poke in the
eye with a sharp stick.  *

*John K Clark*
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