The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence" (simonwillison.net)

54 pointsby torutofu6 hours ago26 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.

sobiolite 2 hours ago

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

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.

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.

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.

fhdkweig 2 hours 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.

tdeck an hour ago

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

actionfromafar 11 minutes ago

Re- turn to form, would you say.

dboreham 39 minutes ago

Also CISA emails. Full Orwell.

cosmicgadget 4 minutes ago

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.

GS_TO 3 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.

dboreham 36 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.

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 6 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-...