<div dir="auto">Update on Greenland: I'm seeing reports that NATO's chief managed to make a deal by granting the US control over the Space Force base in Greenland.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Which the US already had, but supposedly that was enough for the person who had been threatening to order an invasion of Greenland.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">One wonders if there are similarities to AI-style hallucinations, and a preview of what governance by AI - and how humans might exploit it via prompt engineering - might be like if the AI is similar to what we have now.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 7:36 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Meanwhile the President of the United States is obsessed with increasing coal production, Greenland, a ballroom, stopping construction of solar energy projects<span class="gmail_default">;</span> and our 80 year old president has become so delusional he has started "tilting at windmills" like Don Quixote. He has also become obsessed with obtaining a pretty gold medal, he managed to extort one from somebody else which he seems to be very pleased <span class="gmail_default">with</span>, at any moment I expect him to start muttering "my precious<span class="gmail_default">,</span> my precious"<span class="gmail_default"> like</span> </b></font><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Gollum<span class="gmail_default">.</span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default">John K Clark</span></b></font></div></div></div>
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