<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sat, Oct 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>If it was possible, and didn't lead to WW3, </i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></b></font><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Maybe I'm being uncharitable because they didn't actually say so but I suspect they would argue that WW3 would kill billions of people but it wouldn't cause the extinction of the entire human race, but their AI apocalypse would.  </b></font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>it would result in a coalition of the most oppressive police states the world has ever known.</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Yeah, that would be a disadvantage.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> </b></font></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>So basically, they are proposing a choice between a Terrible Disaster, Certain Disaster and a Dystopian Disaster, in order to prevent a Badly-Conceived Possible Disaster. I know which of those four I would choose.</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I to<span class="gmail_default" style="">o</span> know which I would choose, and I have a hunch we would choose the same thing.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> </b></font></div><div><br></div><div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>PS, As spike says, welcome back, John. You have been missed.</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Thanks <span class="gmail_default" style="">Ben, I really appreciate that! </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span> </b></font></div></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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