<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 3:25 PM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</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="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"></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"><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>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 Instead poor old Musk is barely a trillionaire and all he got from that 44 billion was an outdated platform that's full of lunatic conspiracy theories, lethal medical advice, and neo-Nazis.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></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-style:italic;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span><i>At the risk of feeding the troll</i><span class="gmail_default" style=""> [blah blah blah] </span></font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I want to be clear about this, do you really <span class="gmail_default" style="">t</span>hink I don't believe <span class="gmail_default" style="">in </span>what I am saying and I'm <span class="gmail_default" style="">just </span>doing it to get a rise out of you<span class="gmail_default" style="">? </span>Silly people have been accusing me of that since I first joined the list in 1993 and it still makes me mad as hell!<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </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><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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