<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, Mar 1, 2026 at 8:04 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div class="msg-8660421555027182985"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-8660421555027182985WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></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"><div class="msg-8660421555027182985"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-8660421555027182985WordSection1"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" style="" face="georgia, serif"><i style=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>The military will not have a company with guardrails and controls on their weapons.  They want to be in full control of their weapons. </i></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">But w</span>hy does the military need a<span class="gmail_default" style="">n AI</span> company at all<span class="gmail_default" style="">? Why don't they just use their magical mythical AI that you are certain they have and is much much better than Claude or Gemini or GPT or anything that civilians have?</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"><div class="msg-8660421555027182985"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-8660421555027182985WordSection1"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>That reminds me,<span class="m_-8660421555027182985gmaildefault"> </span>you never answered my question<span class="m_-8660421555027182985gmaildefault">. Do</span> you agree with He Who Must Not Be Named …</span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" style="" face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-style:italic;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>John you are getting mired in politics.  It simplifies down to</i><span class="gmail_default" style=""><i></i> [blah blah blah] </span></font></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>And you <span class="gmail_default" style=""><u>STILL</u></span> haven't answered my question, the words just stick in your throat don't they. <span class="gmail_default" style="">I think y</span>ou know <span class="gmail_default" style=""></span>in your heart <span class="gmail_default" style="">as well as I do </span>that the man is full of shit when he says that Anthropic is a "Radical Left AI company" run by "Leftwing nut jobs" because they don't think an AI conducting mass surveillance on the American people or an AI controlling a lethal weapon without a human being in the decision pipeline are good ideas<span class="gmail_default" style="">, but you are physically unable to say so. </span></b></font><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"><div class="msg-8660421555027182985"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-8660421555027182985WordSection1"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-8660421555027182985gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> ><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>></span> </span></b></span><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">AI conducting mass surveillance on US citizens predated the current POTUS.</span></i><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…Not like this<span class="m_-8660421555027182985gmaildefault">….<u></u><u></u></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-8660421555027182985gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-8660421555027182985gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:11pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>Very much like this. </font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b> I think Dario Amodei<span class="gmail_default" style=""> knows more about what modern AI's are capable of doing than you are and he's so worried about that he's willing to give up at $200 million government contract, not to mention the grief that being stigmatized as a "supply chain risk" will caused his company.<br></span></b></font><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-8660421555027182985"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-8660421555027182985WordSection1"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">>><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…You failed to convince us however. </span></i></blockquote></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-8660421555027182985"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-8660421555027182985WordSection1"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…Us? Who is "us"?</span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" style="" face="georgia, serif"><i style=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>John you certainly convinced you.  You convinced us you don’t know nearly as much as you think you do. <br></i></font></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I'll tell you one thing <span class="gmail_default" style="">that </span>I don't know, I <span class="gmail_default" style=""><u>STILL</u> </span>still don't know who <span class="gmail_default" style="">"</span>us<span class="gmail_default" style="">"</span> is<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </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><br></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"><div class="msg-8660421555027182985"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-8660421555027182985WordSection1"><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <br><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>