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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>…</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>ddraig--- via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] why not stalin?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>On Tuesday, 20 October 2026, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Oct 19, 2026, 9:46<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span>PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The risk is that AI won't relieve us of our current responsibilities any time soon. A risk that I suspect is going to happen despite people saying things like, "there is so much boiling up in the near future that none of us should care."<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I actually assumed he was referring to climate change, not AI. *shrugs*<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dwayne<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>-- <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>AI swept away any concern I might have ever had about climate change. Any potential serious harm from CC would take at least decades, more likely centuries. AI is upon us now. I am seeing profound impact already, in places such as UC Berkeley math department (I have people I care about there.) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>I was reading an online group chat among students I once coached in competition math, who are now seniors and grad students. Most of them appear convinced it was a waste of time and resources to study math. I don’t post there, only read, so I couldn’t encourage them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>A comment really struck me. One of my former students is working toward becoming a math teacher. He opined that if it becomes meaningless to study math, it is also meaningless to become a math teacher. Reasoning: AI can teach it better, faster, cheaper, it can adapt to the students shortcomings, focus on teaching at the weak points, fill in the gaps, etc. He is right. Dwayne, If I can get a message to him, any suggestions? Anyone else? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>