<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;background-color:transparent">On Fri, Aug 7, 2026 at 8:02 AM Stefano Ticozzi <<a href="mailto:stefano.ticozzi@gmail.com">stefano.ticozzi@gmail.com</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"><div dir="auto"><p><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>In my humble opinion, the whole “if I was a trillionaire” argument doesn’t make much sense. Musk became a trillionaire thanks to his unique skills. He’s eccentric and obviously makes mistakes but he has also accomplished a great deal and has often seen things before others did.</i></font></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Unlike the current President of the United States<span class="gmail_default" style=""> Elon Musk is neither an imbecile nor an ignoramus, he is a very intelligent man, but he is not as intelligent as he thinks he is; at times he has demonstrated very bad judgment. And Musk has some very serious character flaws which is concerning because he is the richest man in the world. </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></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><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></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 dir="auto"><p>stefano</p><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il ven 7 ago 2026, 13:14 John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> ha scritto:<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 dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"> spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><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 will pass on working for Elon. I have no personal heartburn with him, and see that he is doing all the things we would do if we owned a trillion dollars.</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>If I was a trillionaire<span class="gmail_default"> </span>I would <span class="gmail_default"><u>NOT</u></span> have spent $291 million<span class="gmail_default"> to get the most anti-libertarian President in American history reelected. And I would <u>NOT</u> have created DOGE and made a fool of myself by claiming it would save the government <u>$2 TRILLION A YEAR </u> when it ended up doing little except to increase the stockpile of government chaos, which we already had a sufficient amount of. </span> </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><br></b></font></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>And I would <span class="gmail_default"><u>NOT</u></span> have spent $44 billion in 2022 to buy Twitter, and at the time I publicly said <span class="gmail_default">as much</span> on this list. Musk was not a trillionaire in 2022 and way back then $44 billion was real money; if instead he had used that money for AI research then today Grok would not be an also ran in the rapidly accelerating AI race and <span class="gmail_default">the man</span> would be a <u>multi</u>-trillionaire. Instead poor old Musk is barely a trillionaire and all he got from that 44 billion was an outdated platform that's full of lunatic conspiracy theories, lethal medical advice, and neo-Nazis.</b></font><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default">John K Clark</span></span></b></font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div><br></div><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"><br>
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