The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence" (simonwillison.net)
48 points by torutofu 6 hours ago
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 “(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
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
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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
NoidFonsense 31 minutes ago
fhdkweig an hour ago
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?
simonw 5 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:
https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026-11-01/5821A414-...
