YHK - yet another hacker news clone

IMO "Xitter" is so much truer to its spirit. "okay poop is coming out"

I still call Zuckerberg's company The Facebook.

That's Slovenia's TLD... hey, wait a minute.

or the oceans, but maybe most of all the Kennedy center, he is a very bitter and spiteful person

Or New England

It's because Trump's tech donors used their bought access to barrage him with lesswrong-style lore dumps on the dangers of Artificial Superintelligence and the first and last thing he understood or cared about was that word.

Someone who I know frequents Mar A Lago, so yes this probably really happened told me he wanted to rename New Mexico to Best Mexico.

One of my buddies overheard this and set his joint down and said declaratively "yeah let's fuckin' do it". Good moment.

In Polish, AI is called "Sztuczna Inteligencja" which translates to "Synthetic Intelligence".

syncretic intelligence is more accurate

Or combining the two words to get Superficial Intelligence.

Schutzstaffel Idiotisch; that is what he wants

That fact that we are talking about this rather than say the price of diesel shows you his genius. Do you really think he cares about this term or the name of Lake Ontario in any actual way other than as a tail to wag the dog?

There's this very American trait of thinking these sorts of things matter by themselves, this almost-deification of their norms.

They only do as a social contract, as long as power structures agree to enforce them.

The regime has been undermining that social contract for years, and their enablers for decades. Who's gonna stop them?

Rules get broken all the time, including in the US, especially by this admin. Constitutional checks have failed many a time in history. Your country isn't special. If you're not careful and keep thinking rules that were agreed to generations ago automatically retain their power, you're in for a lot of pain down the line.

> All he can do is mandate that government employees use his favored term.

He can also say $0 will be given to anyone who uses the term AI. Let's say that applies to the NSF, then every AI researcher in the country has to use "SI" in their research if they want federal grants, which they all do. That'd be worse than a chilling effect, it'd be forced speech.

Will that hold up in court? Probably not. But in the meantime, researchers go without research dollars, labs are shut down, projects are mothballed, students are fired, and a court ruling doesn't bring any of that back or undo any damage.

These are actually loyalty tests. He makes these ridiculous proclamations, and then sees who jumps to fulfill them. Companies like Google are very eager to rename large bodies of water whenever the President tells them to. How far are they willing to go? Will they rename their entire AI division to SI? If they do, the President will just up the ante. Will they rename the days of the week? Hand over a large stake in Google to the US government? Who knows, the only way to find out is to try.

> calling it Artificial implies limitations not representative of its capabilities

Artificial doesn't, necessarily, mean limited, though. It means that it's man-made, which is an accurate description of these objects and systems.

No, the message is that he can control your language.

AI is only as powerful as the data its trained on. It has not, and will never exceed general human intelligence.

Artificial as in synthetic or man-made, everyone knows what it means, you're just giving a post-hoc rationalization for whatever game he's playing.

LOL.. CloseSI.

Apparently Musk has officially renamed SpaceX, SpaceXsi and Nvidia has renamed its Ai data centers : superintelligence factories

No. Believe it or not, "Artificial America".

I'm pretty sure he is aiming for "Automated Stupidity".

Joe Biden also wasn't a cruel person, and that's the main reason you have what you have today.

> His speech is way more rambling and incoherent that anything Joe Biden ever went through

Yes, even bringing into scope the debate which did Biden in, he was more coherent than Trump.

Yes, and it can have a beneficial effect for populations in (modeled) social environments, eg https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22926-1

but as the title of the paper implies it works much better when it's a covert means of in-group identification, allowing prisoners-dilemma style cooperation without tipping off counterparties about affiliation. When it's no longer a covert signal but more of a compliance test I suspect it rapidly tips into negative utility.

Is 11 paragraphs of clearly written text really so hard to read that people need a 3 paragraph summary that leaves out one of the best parts?

> Trump said in a post earlier this month that the White House “considers anyone that uses the term, ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, ‘Super Intelligence,’ THE ENEMY!”

He is calling people who use AI as a term still the enemy. Delightfully idiotic, and his supporters will probably eat it up.