[ExI] Bernie Sanders and his stupidity preservation bill

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2026 at 5:37 AM John Clark via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> Would you rather be shot or hung?

Do I get to wear a bulletproof vest and play dead?  (It's not
"superintelligence research"; it's any of thousands of other
legitimate directions - and several of them at once.)

Alternatively, https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/6616a7d57348b92b6f5559fbbad1eb0154f6140b3d931286abf4168e71961615/lightyear_networkapi/resizefill_w960%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fknow_your_meme_909%2F85c40abe4d2a1ef92e5841612f33882c
with the inevitable consequences as the pirates.