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

(simonwillison.net)

48 points | by torutofu 6 hours ago ago

21 comments

  • Lerc 2 hours 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

      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

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

  • chrismorgan 2 hours ago

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

    But hang on, surely ā€œ(formerly referred to as Artificial Intelligence or AI)ā€ fails the provision in §1¶3 ā€œnot acknowledge the usage of ā€˜Artificial Intelligence’ and ā€˜AI’ in any applicable settingā€ (admittedly not reiterated in §2 or §3)?

  • totetsu 2 hours 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

      Also CISA emails. Full Orwell.

    • jshier 2 hours 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

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

      • fhdkweig an hour 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

    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

    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

      [flagged]

      • ourmandave an hour ago

        Well now you're just quoting Space Force doctrine.

        (Esp. the second part.)

      • boston_clone 2 hours ago

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

        • idle_zealot an hour 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

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

        • NoidFonsense 31 minutes ago

          Would you prefer if it was NoidMonsense?

        • fhdkweig an hour 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

            It’s a clear spoonerism.

  • andsoitis 6 hours 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?