Roger, that’s brilliant.

My visitors from CMU came by chance the day after the final win. They were 
pretty excited about it all.


> On Feb 4, 2017, at 7:12 PM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I noticed the poker playing AI winning the tournament recently in the news, 
> but I hadn't noticed until today that the lead researcher was Tuomas Sandholm 
> at CMU, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sandholm/ <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sandholm/>, 
> who was hot into computing mechanisms years ago.  Mechanisms being self 
> enforcing contract terms, where reneging on the contract is suicide.  Lots of 
> fun stuff on his page, but he made me think of what we might do to shorten 
> the Trump years.
> 
> Suppose someone built a deep thinking AI that does real estate negotiation 
> and turned it loose on the Trumps?  If the Trump properties start 
> hemorrhaging money, the Donald might get really distracted from making 
> america great again.  That's why he wrote the trust so he can revoke it at 
> any time.  Because Don Jr. had a few problems when he was off on his own the 
> first few times, too.
> 
> Because being like really smart like Donald is very much a zero sum game, you 
> can only be like really smart about so many things in a day.  Even the 
> suspicion that there was an AI might be enough distraction.  How about the 
> suspicion that there was a whole gang of AI's?
> 
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