[ExI] Rate of Change

[Darin Sunley]

One of the Trump administration's most senior and trusted advisors
personally owns the largest piece of AI infrastructure in Western
civilization.

I realize it's fashionable to write Trump off as an authoritarian baboon,
but he is smart, and has surrounded himself with people even smarter. And
the first thing smart machiavellians do, if they can, is arrange to be
massively underestimated by their opponents.

The probability that the Trump admin is not leveraging AI to the hilt is
approximately zero.

On Sun, May 25, 2025, 8:24 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> >… frenetic pace of throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks
> while the press is looking elsewhere.
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> Kelly what if… the current POTUS (whose name I cannot recall) is using AI
> to generate distractions?  He could get some junior staffer or intern to
> use AI to spin out letters suggesting reopening Alcatraz for instance,
> which would have environmental groups, historians and other special
> interest groups organizing to oppose something he never intended to do.  It
> wouldn’t cost much of anything to create a distraction, while he went off
> and carried out the real agenda, which he never told to the press.
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> That would be the first example of government by AI, in a sense.
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