[ExI] Trump Says a Smart President Is All That’s Needed to Rein In A.I.

[John Clark]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2026 at 11:38 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*>>…From that and other evidence* *it is now** pretty clear that although
>> he has occasional flashes of genius Elon Musk is not mentally stable….*
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> *> On the contrary.  He is stating an astonishing conviction that a
> government cannot sustain spending more than it takes in.  John, is that
> really such a mentally unstable position?*
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*YES!! It is a sign of mental instability because it is flagrantly opposite
to the conclusion provided by the scientific method. Except for a few years
during the Clinton administration, the US government has been spending more
than it has been taking in for the last 150 years, and until Donald got his
hands on it and tried to "fix" it with idiotic tariffs and a ridiculous war
with Iran, the US economy had been flourishing. And the US is not unusual
in that regard, nearly every nation in the world has a long history of
spending more money than it takes in. *

*And if Donald had actually implemented the measures that you say Elon Musk
recommended then he would have been impeached AND CONVICTED within a month
because the average MAGA congressman may be loony but he's not THAT loony.
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*> Yes, John, for we must face the risk that AI will not kill everybody.
> If it doesn’t then what? *
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*Then the good times will roll because we will have invented a
completely automatic wealth generating machine that requires no Human
maintenance, and all pre-AI economic theories become obsolete. I mean...do
you really believe Mr. Jupiter Brain will be interested in Human money and
obtaining more of it? *

*John K Clark*
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