<div dir="ltr"><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 Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 7:47 PM <</span><a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">spike@rainier66.com</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></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><div lang="EN-US"><div><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"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>>></span>Again you ask me to compare incomparables.</span></i><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b></blockquote></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><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>…I was asking a question about trust, why is that incomparable?<span> I can trust or distrust a person, an animal, a nation, a corporation or even the weather. So why can't I compare the level of trust between a company and an army?<u></u><u></u></span></span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><font face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>More relevant is to compare trust in companies and trust in armies. <br></i></font></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4" style=""><b>How on earth is that more relevant?<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>The matter at hand is the relative trust between<span class="gmail_default" style=""> the US military under the command of the current POTUS and a private corporation called Anthropic. And of the two I trust Anthropic more because I know for a fact that the leader of Anthropic has told far fewer lies than the current leader of the US military. Of course that is a very low bar to pass because almost every human being on the planet has told fewer lies then You Know Who; yes </span>Putin and X<span class="gmail_default" style="">i</span> and Kim Jong Un<span class="gmail_default" style=""> have told more lies, but the complete list of those who have beaten He Who Must Not Be Named in this achievement would not be much longer than that.</span></b></font></div><div><br><i style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:13.5pt"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I trust the US army more than I trust the Chinese army or the Russian army. Do you? </i></div><div><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Yes, but that is another very low bar.<span class="gmail_default"> </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><div lang="EN-US"><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold">> </span><i><font face="georgia, serif">I trust POTUS more than I trust Putin or Xi. Do you? </font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Yes<span class="gmail_default"> (but again that is a very low bar) and I don't think it's fair to compare him with Hitler either, I think he's more like Mussolini. </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"><div><div lang="EN-US"><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I don’t trust any of the AI companies.</i></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I don't completely trust any organization that is large and powerful,<span class="gmail_default"> but for some my level of trust is large but not infinite, and for others it is small or nonexistent. </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></div>
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