The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence"

(simonwillison.net)

48 points | by torutofu 6 hours ago ago

21 comments

  • Lerc 2 hours ago ago

    I think when it comes to making machines smarter than humans, Executive Order 14434 represents an admirable effort by this administration to meet the machines halfway.

    • nostrademons an hour ago ago

      I wish we could talk more about Natural Stupidity, which is the flip side of Artificial Intelligence, the seeming desire of humans to show that they are dumber than a machine.

    • sobiolite 2 hours ago ago

      Less meeting them halfway and more blasting past them at Mach 10 and continuing to accelerate.

  • chrismorgan 2 hours ago ago

    > Beginning with the October 19, 2026 collection, instrument wording was updated due to Executive Order 14434.

    But hang on, surely “(formerly referred to as Artificial Intelligence or AI)” fails the provision in §1¶3 “not acknowledge the usage of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and ‘AI’ in any applicable setting” (admittedly not reiterated in §2 or §3)?

  • totetsu 2 hours ago ago

    Its showing up in all the NIST stuff now too. Gave me quite mid-meeting snort when I saw that.

    • dboreham 15 minutes ago ago

      Also CISA emails. Full Orwell.

    • jshier 2 hours ago ago

      Yet another thing to make illegal in '29. We're going to have to reform the whole notion of the executive.

      • tdeck an hour ago ago

        Or we could just talk a lot about a return to "norms" without reforming anything.

      • fhdkweig an hour ago ago

        It is sad knowing we are spending all this money on monuments that will just be spent all over again when we remove them in 2 years. And yes, these word/name changes are meant to be a monument, a tangible mark on history.

  • dboreham 12 minutes ago ago

    As a business owner I get these surveys. In times past I'd spend a bunch of time responding, on the theory it's my duty to help the government gather accurate statistics. Now I delete the emails on arrival since the government is under the control of goose-stepping imbeciles who wouldn't know good data if it smacked them in the head.

  • GS_TO 2 hours ago ago

    I only use Super Intelligence (SI) in Lake America, in the Gulf of America, and maybe soon in the Trump Ocean. In there it's a Golden Age like nobody's ever seen before. Everywhere else I just use AI.

    • NoidFonsense 2 hours ago ago

      [flagged]

      • ourmandave an hour ago ago

        Well now you're just quoting Space Force doctrine.

        (Esp. the second part.)

      • boston_clone 2 hours ago ago

        Off-topic, but why does your username have an incel slur (e.g., "foid") in it?

        • idle_zealot an hour ago ago

          Reviewing post history, it's very clearly tongue-in-cheek. The user probably spends time in spaces that shit on incels and the like and is adopting the name ironically.

          • bdhe 9 minutes ago ago

            Uff, first you're ironically doing it and then ...

        • NoidFonsense 31 minutes ago ago

          Would you prefer if it was NoidMonsense?

        • fhdkweig an hour ago ago

          It doesn't say "foid", it says "noid". If you were a child of the 1980s, you'd know The Noid.

          https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=noid+domino%27s+pizza&ia=we...

          • devin an hour ago ago

            It’s a clear spoonerism.

  • andsoitis 6 hours ago ago

    > a chart produced by Apollo Global Management in September 2025

    We’re using a year old chart to have a pulse on trends in a very fast moving market place?