The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence"
simonwillison.netI 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.
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.
>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.
Natural stupidity, like using words incorrectly?
Why are you idiots still calling virtual intelligence, artificial?
All definitions of artificial are references to human feats not machine.
Learn to code was a euphemism for learn to think
Less meeting them halfway and more blasting past them at Mach 10 and continuing to accelerate.
> 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)?
Its showing up in all the NIST stuff now too. Gave me quite mid-meeting snort when I saw that.
Also CISA emails. Full Orwell.
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.
Yet another thing to make illegal in '29. We're going to have to reform the whole notion of the executive.
Adopting a parliamentary system would avoid many of these problems—albeit it would require a constitutional amendment. The President could be elected by the House of Representatives from among its own members, for an indefinite term, but could be sacked by the House at any time by a simple majority vote. The President would continue to be a member of the House, and automatically lose office as President if they lost their seat in the House.
Or we could just talk a lot about a return to "norms" without reforming anything.
Re- turn to form, would you say.
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.
You have SI now over there, next up, SI units!
I am thankful for EO14434 because it lets me immediately identify which data sources and people are either too idiotic or cowardly to be worth listening to on anything.
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.
You forgot New America (he's soured on New Mexico).
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.
This is that fun active domestic propaganda, like when they started calling remote controlled quadcopters "drones" in order to justify murdering people by remote control.
Or when they rebranded financing terrorism into "material support for terrorism," loudly promising, over and over again, calling everyone who questioned them conspiracy theorists, that the word "material" was always going to mean physical and never mean speech (and never almost immediately mean clear and unambiguous.)
Bernie is leading the charge here. What an abject disappointment. Ancient Vermont commies tried to tell me but I didn't listen. Trump has a long history of taking the often dumb, often evil stuff that Democrats say and immediately stealing it for himself - ever since he got birtherism from the PUMAs (Party Unity My Ass), or "Fake News" directly from Hillary Clinton.
Nothing sounds more scary than invading foreign superintelligence! Better root all those computers so they can't run anything unapproved.
> 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?
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-...
