Capturing the Billionaire Nerds & Their A.I.
Many of my fellow Substack authors are expressing dismay this morning about President Trump’s announcement of his Stargate deal with Oracle’s Larry Ellison, SoftBank’s CEO Masayoshi Son, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Especially alarming are Larry Ellison’s Start Trek geek comments about fusing A.I. and mRNA technologies.
Like a lot of tech dorks, Ellison grossly overestimates our understanding of biology, which I believe is vastly more complex than electronics and algorithmic learning.
However, I agree with Jeff Childers that it’s better for President Trump to try to capture the Billionaire Nerds instead of shunning them.
Though I see grounds for extreme vigilance, I’m also inclined to adopt the optimistic view that it’s far better for Trump to have these potentially dangerous men on his side than to shun them.
I have read Larry Ellison’s biography, and I believe he is one of the most formidable guys who has ever lived.
If I were president, I would far rather have him very close to me than shun him, leaving him completely untethered to direct A.I. schemes from his island lair on Lanai.
Snubbing him would be the equivalent of the Roman Senate telling Julius Caesar to relinquish command of his army and return to Rome, which didn’t work out for the Senate.
These guys are going to run with A.I.—as are the Chinese—whether the U.S. government wants them to or not. Though I reiterate that his development is indeed cause for concern and vigilance, I intuitively sense that President Trump is making the right moves with them.
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Aaron
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So this is trumps idea of fighting the ‘Deep State’?
Dismantling the Deep State
https://youtu.be/1uGb0mVzPbc
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Howdy
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As far as anybody knows, this may get changed by Trump as it proceeds. I’ll wait and see before passing judgement.
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Lorraine
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I wouldn’t be surprised if President Ttimp is humoring the boys club. Makes them feel important. The grandiose scheme will flame out on its own.
As they say in Texas, All hat, no cattle.
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Tom
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If you consider the scope of what these maniacs want to do with A/I, at some point A/i will have replaced just about everything except the garbage collector perhaps. Eventually it will be one A/i system fighting another for control with humans on the outside looking in.
I think Trump just wants to beat China to the A/i punch at any cost but hasn’t a clue as to how to do it. He will throw trillions of taxpayer dollars at it and not get the results he wants. He will leave it in the hands of big tech like he left mRNA poisons in the hands of big big pharma. The difference is that China’s A/i does not have any DEI or wokiness in it whereas US A/i is loaded with this crap.
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