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by saretup 72 days ago
Even more 'disquieting' when you take into account who's currently the president of US.

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will." - Donald Trump

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When I was reading https://ai-2027.com, which is quite a scary read, I couldn't help but think the US president being mentioned in the story acts too rational compared to the real world. It can get a lot crazier than this fictional piece.
The art of the deal, baby
These people are willfully ignorant to ignore what was obviously going on here, that it was a negotiating tactic.
And every time it works, they still don't acknowledge it. Would he have blown up bridges and power plants? Quite possibly. Would he have dropped a nuke? Obviously not.
Yeah this is bad timing for frontier progress.