The super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for OpenAI

techblueberry

I might challenge the idea this is “smart politics”. Like I can get the tactics, but it feels disconnected from a greater strategy. The best I can figure out is I guess good for the next two years having people subordinate to your administration.

xvxvx

It may not even be as thought out as that. I think he’s simply trying to link his Presidency to AI in a way that lasts. So of AI does take over the world, which it won’t, it will be his legacy, of sorts. But yeah, in the meantime it’s a humiliation ritual. Good.

BLKNSLVR

Meta commentary warning. WTF platform has to split that over three posts. I mean, at least it's not Twitter, but choose a platform that's fit for purpose.

Heronsunny

Legacy framing feels off to me, the loyalty tests usually have a much shorter horizon than that, they're about who shows up this quarter.

dfxm12

I've noticed it has another benefit of giving the administration an out when they get hard questions about AI. They can huff and puff about calling it SI instead of answering the question.

LogicFailsMe

At some point you have to start laughing maniacally at the spinelessness of America's top paper billionaires, or it gets very dark, very fast.

speak_plainly

For many outside the US, and undoubtedly some within it, the term SI is a source of embarrassment. But it’s good to know who bends the knee.

pebbly_bread

For my sanity I don't follow US politics too closely, if "super intelligence" is truly being pushed hard then it seems reasonable to assume the reason why is to assert control of truth. Who are you to disagree with Super Intelligence when it tells you that Haitians are eating dogs?

dieselgate

Is there more context anyone can give to help understand what’s going on: I read the post but curious if AGI is just morphing into SI in lingo? Why is it being politicized?

aatd86

I am simply not purchasing a .si domain. If really a new expression need to be coined, that should be something that means derived Intelligence/type II Intelligence etc. What is intelligence anyway? It's just a weird attempt at cementing some legacy. The rest of the world is not going to go along with it. Then again, flattering thinking machines is not too bad, ... just in case :D

malshe

There is also the consipracy theory that MAGA people in Trump's inner orbit started buying up .si domain names in June.

ddoolin

I hate this "it sounds ridiculous and it is BUT it could just be 4D chess and here's why..." Stop justifying this crap. It's just the drivel of a decaying mind.

charcircuit

Their name wasn't OpenAGI. They can be OpenAI who is a company working on super intelligence.

getfacl

The thing about this is, that when a new technology truly succeeds the name fades away. The same will happen with .ai or .si if anyone takes that seriously. We don't call HDTVs that anymore. We just call them TVs. Like what happened when Color TVs became the norm. At some point a Self-Driving Car will just be a car. At some point mentioning that a product includes AI will sound silly because it will just be a given. At that point having ai inclusion be part of the products name will sound as outdated as saying Color TV.

ncr100

Humiliation is a key part of dictatorships. - https://psyche.co/ideas/the-history-of-humiliation-points-to... Political humiliation needs audiences. We're seeing that by being unable to stop hegseth from live streaming a firing squad execution of a criminal. We can't stop it, as Americans. That's humiliating and that's a loss of control. So they're pulling out all the stops, this current American Administration, on the dictatorship show.

burger_moon

I thought it was all going to blow over as just Trump yelling into the void as he does. Then I saw NIST updating all their docs to conform to this new naming standard as fed govt agencies don't have a choice but to follow the EO of the week. https://www.nist.gov/super-intelligence

anramon

The US has been falling so hard on its PR and propaganda department in the last, I don't know, 20 years?, that China actually seem to look like the good guys. People forget those extensive news reports, articles, stories and so on about the "chinese totalitarian dystopia" 15 to 25 years ago, now those seem like a joke in sight of what the US, and a great bunch of the anglo-germanic sphere, are doing.

ForHackernews

This seems fine to me. The AI people all decided we have to talk about "Alignment" and "The Singularity" like members of some millenarianist cult, so turnabout is fair play: force them to adopt some incongruous jargon representing an out-group's worldview.

Charly_HW

And dont think OpenAI Marketing and PR thinks the same