[ExI] Recursive AI self improvement

Sat Nov 7 20:55:16 UTC 2026

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Sent: Saturday, 7 November, 2026 12:42 PM
To: spike at rainier66.com
Cc: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Subject: Re: [ExI] Recursive AI self improvement

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

> I sold my Nvidia shares in September, but now they are looking very attractive for a buy back…  spike 

>…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….

I am not a big active trader in real money stocks, but rather I play in prediction futures with very small amounts, really just for fun.  But prediction markets can guide real money stock trades, as illustrated by Nvidia.  I noticed around here the big No Data Centers protests, with plenty of Free Palestine riders in the crowd.  Conclusion: the American left is Data Center unfriendly.  

Then I speculated that the 26 election would go farther left than usual for a midterm, so I reasoned that it would be a bad election for data centers, which is bad for Nvidia, so I stepped out of it, for now.  In the long run, things look great for Nvidia however (my opinion.)  Unfortunately… I held onto my PredictIt shares too long, hoping to have a net positive for the cycle (I bet correctly but (not big enough (and not soon enough (then held the shares too long (causing me to have a net loss of about four bucks for the cycle (damn.)))))  But… it guided my decision on the Nvidia, so no problem.  I just hate losing at prediction markets, since that is a game.  Real money I don’t care about as much, but games, I love to win those.

>> 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

I am still working on how to carry money with me after being uploaded.  It would suck to be uploaded and have nothing to buy, because anything we want could be imagined into existence.  Without scarcity, prices are meaningless.  We would need to create artificial scarcity somehow just to have something to speculate on, something to compete for.

spike

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