<div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 19, 2026, 9:46 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> </span>On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 6:08 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" dir="auto"><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0in 0in" dir="auto"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Keith Henson <<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, 19 October, 2026 6:02 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">spike@rainier66.com</a><br><b>Cc:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] why not stalin?</span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" dir="auto"><p class="MsoNormal">>…And as John says, there is so much boiling up in the near future that none of us should care.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ja, I get that. But we also need to face the risk that AI will not kill everybody, or won’t do it in the next two or three years.</span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I would not call that a risk.</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">No, Spike's got a point there. There is a distinct risk that AI won't change things enough in the next 2-3 years, that we will still have to care about the things we've been caring about.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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."</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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