[ExI] How Trump Is Dismantling America’s Scientific Research Machine

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2026 at 5:39 PM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> ...> On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
> Subject: Re: [ExI] How Trump Is Dismantling America’s Scientific Research Machine
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> On 31/10/2026 20:33, spike wrote:
> >> The cool part about AI research is that taxpayers aren’t on the hook for it.  Rich guys pay for it all.  As a result, they get richer, which enables them to do even more AI research, as well as build data centers and the power plants to drive them.  The rich guys employ armies of proles to build the data centers and power plants.  These proles pay taxes.  Everyone wins.
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> >...Slight amendment: "The rich guys build armies of robots to build the data centres and power plants. The robots don't pay taxes, and put humans out of work. The out-of work humans revolt because the rich guys don't redistribute the even more obscene profits they are now making, and millions of people die. Everybody loses".
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> Recognizing that risk, the AI jillionaires create sufficient jobs to prevent millions from dying.

There's no evidence that they will, and strong evidence - based on
their actions so far - that they will not.