<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 Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM Keith Henson 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>I think an awful lot of voters knew they were voting for a criminal,<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>and that did not deter them<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>because they wanted a xenophobic criminal<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>leader. </i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Yeah<span class="gmail_default" style="">,</span> they wanted a criminal leader even though one of the big issues was crime<span class="gmail_default" style="">,</span> and even though the crime rate is much lower <span class="gmail_default" style="">today </span>than it was in the 1980s or 90s. Maybe they thought they'd be safer if the criminals were in the White House and not on the streets. But I don't think most voters wanted xenophobia to go as far as Canada<span class="gmail_default" style=""> or Denmark</span>, and I don't think they wanted army troops wearing full battle gear patrolling American cities against the wishes of its governor, mayor <span class="gmail_default" style="">and</span> inhabitants.</b></font><br><div><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="">> </span>The most consequential thing, even more significant than<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>pardoning the Jan 6 mob, was disbanding any attempt at limiting the AI<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>buildout.</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Why would you want to limit<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>the AI<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>buildout<span class="gmail_default" style="">? That would not limit the danger to the human race, the only thing that would accomplish is that China would be the one that builds the progenitor of MR. Jupiter Brain. </span> </b></font></div><div><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="">> </span>It probably would not make much difference anyway. </i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I think our chances of coming out of the other side of the <span class="gmail_default" style="">S</span>ingularity meat grinder in one piece w<span class="gmail_default" style="">ill</span> be slightly greater if the US<span class="gmail_default" style=""> not China </span>builds the progenitor of MR. Jupiter Brain</b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><b>. Somebody somewhere is certain to build it, it's only a matter of time. </b></span><b> </b></font></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>The<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>next most consequential may be starting a war with some South American<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>country. (After talking about making war on Canada and Denmark.)</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>This would be a <span class="gmail_default" style="">very </span>good time to <span class="gmail_default" style="">start a</span> war with Venezuela,<span class="gmail_default" style=""> it would distract voters from the Epstein files. Speaking of that, just a few hours ago, after vigorously lobbying members of Congress for months to keep that file closed, the convicted felon suddenly reversed course by 180 degrees and now says Congress should vote to release the files. I think Jeffrey Epstein's best friend knew that despite his best efforts </span>his lobbying effort had failed<span class="gmail_default" style=""> and that information</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> was going to be made public, so he wanted to make it seem like it was his idea to do so. </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"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>John K Clark</b></span><b> </b></font></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></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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