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

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42 points by torutofu5 hours ago

5 comments

Lerc1 hour 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.
- nostrademons33 minutes 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.
- sobiolite1 hour ago
  Less meeting them halfway and more blasting past them at Mach 10 and continuing to accelerate.
chrismorgan1 hour 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)?
totetsu1 hour ago
Its showing up in all the NIST stuff now too. Gave me quite mid-meeting snort when I saw that.
- jshier1 hour ago
  Yet another thing to make illegal in '29. We're going to have to reform the whole notion of the executive.
  - tdeck26 minutes ago
    Or we could just talk a lot about a return to "norms" without reforming anything.
  - fhdkweig48 minutes 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.
GS_TO1 hour 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.
- NoidFonsense1 hour ago
 I use SI everywhere on planet Trump (Located conveniently in the Trumpian System in American Way). But that's just because I'm a patriot and love my country, I understand others may not feel the same way
 - ourmandave54 minutes ago
 Well now you're just quoting Space Force doctrine.(Esp. the second part.)
 - boston_clone1 hour ago
 Off-topic, but why does your username have an incel slur (e.g., "foid") in it?
 - idle_zealot45 minutes 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.
 - fhdkweig55 minutes ago
 It doesn't say "foid", it says "noid". If you were a child of the 1980s, you'd know The Noid.<a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=noid+domino%27s+pizza&ia=web" rel="nofollow">https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=noid+domino%27s+pizza&ia=we...</a>
 - devin40 minutes ago
 It’s a clear spoonerism.
andsoitis5 hours ago
> a chart produced by Apollo Global Management in September 2025We’re using a year old chart to have a pulse on trends in a very fast moving market place?
- simonw4 hours ago
 No, we are using that chart as inspiration for a new October 2026 chart with the latest numbers from the same underlying data source as the 2025 one:<a href="https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026-11-01/5821A414-FAF6-4E61-B037-952C1FD80D39.png" rel="nofollow">https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026-11-01/5821A414-...</a>