<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 6:03 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br></font></div><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"><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"> <span class="m_-5578398550354781866gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>></span> </span></i></span><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">John you persist in getting caught up in politics. </span></i></blockquote></div></blockquote></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"> </blockquote><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-5578398550354781866"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-5578398550354781866WordSection1"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>… <b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">And  <span class="m_-5578398550354781866m-8163839354383394392gmaildefault"><u>STILL</u></span> <span class="m_-5578398550354781866gmaildefault">no answer to my very simple question. You just can't say it</span></span></b><span class="m_-5578398550354781866gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">….<u></u><u></u></span></b></span></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-5578398550354781866gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-5578398550354781866gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>OK.  What was the question? </font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Spike, do you really expect me to believe you don't know the question after I've repeated it twice?<span class="gmail_default" style=""> You realize that what POTUS said was nonsense but you are unable to say so, I suppose you feel that any criticism of the chief of your tribe would be a betrayal. My tribe is science so I am free to criticize him when he does something stupid, which is often, and praise him when he does something right, which is rare. It's so rare it comes close to thermodynamic impossibility but not quite, it is observable.  </span></b></font></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-5578398550354781866"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-5578398550354781866WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-5578398550354781866gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></b></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><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-5578398550354781866"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-5578398550354781866WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span class="m_-5578398550354781866gmaildefault"><font size="4" style="" face="georgia, serif"><i style=""><span class="gmail_default" style="">> </span>Good for him.  But the military still can’t use AI with guardrails. </i></font></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>A man who has a long history of telling thousands of lies a year<span class="gmail_default" style=""> says he would never do something so guardrails are unnecessary, but for some unstated reason the man absolutely insists that he must possess the ability to do that thing that he would never do anyway. Are you really so naïve that you believe him? I don't think so, I could be wrong but I think a more probable theory is you feel that denying the man anything he wants would be betraying your tribe. </span></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"><div class="msg-5578398550354781866"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-5578398550354781866WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span class="m_-5578398550354781866gmaildefault"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i style=""><font size="4"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>They need to know for sure their AI weapons will fire when ordered to do so.</font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Then they should use their own wonderful AI which you claim is much much better than Claude or anything else that civilians have because it's the military that is at the cutting edge of AI research not the AI companies. But... If the military really did have an AI that was that superior then I don't understand why the Singularity hasn't already happened. And I don't understand how humans can <u>EVER</u> "<i>know for sure</i>"<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>that their AI will do what they order it to do.  </b></font><br><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-5578398550354781866"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-5578398550354781866WordSection1"><div><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>A trivial little<span class="m_-5578398550354781866gmaildefault"> </span>thing like violating the <span class="m_-5578398550354781866gmaildefault">C</span>onstitution<span class="m_-5578398550354781866gmaildefault"> is not going to stop</span> <span class="m_-5578398550354781866gmaildefault">Y</span>ou <span class="m_-5578398550354781866gmaildefault">K</span>now </span></b></blockquote></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-5578398550354781866gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-5578398550354781866gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I see, so you presume guilt, then from that derive guilt?</font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>I don't have a clue what you mean by that.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></b></font> </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-5578398550354781866"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-5578398550354781866WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-5578398550354781866gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></b></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b><br><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-5578398550354781866"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-5578398550354781866WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-5578398550354781866gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>The mass surveillance by government is illegal under the constitution. </i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>If you had actually watched that very important interview with Dario Amodei<span class="gmail_default" style=""> where he explains why he did what he did, you would know that he was <u>NOT</u> talking about what was and was not constitutional, he was talking about what was and was not Orwellian. I don't think </span>Amodei<span class="gmail_default" style=""> even mentioned the Constitution, which isn't surprising because it isn't relevant; none of the 18th century framers of the Constitution knew the first thing about AI, and our current POTUS doesn't know much more. </span> </b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="gmail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