Astro Hacker News - The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence"

Lerc |next [-]

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 |root |parent |next [-]

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 |root |parent |previous [-]

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

chrismorgan |next |previous [-]

> 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 |next |previous [-]

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

dboreham |root |parent |next [-]

Also CISA emails. Full Orwell.

cosmicgadget |root |parent [-]

Newspeak was part of a grand plan to control thoughts. This is just the government version of a CEO who considers himself a thought leader and his every dumb whim is made policy by lackeys.

Voters wanted the country to be run like a business, they're getting it.

jshier |root |parent |previous [-]

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

tdeck |root |parent |next [-]

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

actionfromafar |root |parent [-]

Re- turn to form, would you say.

fhdkweig |root |parent |previous [-]

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_TO |next |previous [-]

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.

ks2048 |root |parent |next [-]

You forgot New America (he's soured on New Mexico).

NoidFonsense |root |parent |previous [-]

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ourmandave |root |parent |next [-]

Well now you're just quoting Space Force doctrine.

(Esp. the second part.)

boston_clone |root |parent |previous [-]

Off-topic, but why does your username have a slur (e.g., "foid") used by incels in it?

idle_zealot |root |parent |next [-]

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 |root |parent [-]

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

tomrod |root |parent [-]

Loe's Paw?

NoidFonsense |root |parent |next |previous [-]

Would you prefer if it was NoidMonsense?

fhdkweig |root |parent |previous [-]

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 |root |parent [-]

It’s a clear spoonerism.

im3w1l |root |parent [-]

Out of curiosity I tried doing it to itself, and googled pooner schism. Which google ai confidently explained was a schism on /lgbt/ about pooner memes. Now kinda curious whether it's a hallucination or not and I'm kinda scared of diving deep enough into this rabbit hole to find out.

actionfromafar |root |parent [-]

In the near future, your mandated Super Intelligent Government Grok Space XPhone / ankle brace will give you whatever rabbit holes it thinks you need.

dboreham |next |previous [-]

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.

andsoitis |previous [-]

> 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 |root |parent [-]

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-...