Trump Denounces Attempts to Control AI, Wants It Renamed 'Super Intelligence' in US Documents (thehill.com) 260
U.S. President Trump addressed the United Nations on Tuesday. And a half hour in, after decrying immigration, Trump pivoted to add that "The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now."
But then he added "hereinafter officially called super intelligence, changing the name, in that the use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake. It makes it sound fake, and it is not fake. It's actually... amazing. But we have to be careful — in fact, it is exactly the opposite of what it purports. From this point forward, all of United States documents and hopefully the world's will be changed to use the much more accurate term super as opposed to artificial. So it's super intelligence." TRUMP: In other words, welcome to the new world of super intelligence — SI. SI. Let's see if that goes. It sounds much better. It is much better, and it's much more accurate. Let's see if I have any power. Maybe I do and maybe I don't. We're going to find out pretty soon. Super intelligence.
Every major new technology brings challenges, and super intelligence is no exception. Yet the very same people who said we'll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming, a name since reborn to climate change because the planet was cooling not warming, and nobody was dead — these are the same people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us all. That robots are going to attack us, and that everything is going to be a total disaster — same group of people. This is the group that came up with the Russia Russia Russia hoax, the Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine hoax. Climate change, open borders.
Whoever wins AI — you have to remember this — and now I say, whoever wins SI, whoever wins super intelligent [sic] — wins. That's the group that wins. And we're leading now over China by a lot, and everyone else, and we're going to keep it that way. We're going to keep it very — very straight and very strong. I'm not going to stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution. Many say, bigger than the Industrial Revolution or the internet itself.
And we will be very careful, and that's why we have a Department of Justice that we've already used it, having to do with this very subject, and used it very powerfully. Everything worked out very well and very quickly. And other law enforcement bodies that will rein things in if we have to do that.
But we will only encourage super intelligence. We're gonna encourage it, not rein it in. We're gonna watch it closely, through the Department of Justice. The United States leads the world in Super Intelligence, and will continue to do so, safely and responsibly.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader ArchieBunker for suggesting the story.
But then he added "hereinafter officially called super intelligence, changing the name, in that the use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake. It makes it sound fake, and it is not fake. It's actually... amazing. But we have to be careful — in fact, it is exactly the opposite of what it purports. From this point forward, all of United States documents and hopefully the world's will be changed to use the much more accurate term super as opposed to artificial. So it's super intelligence." TRUMP: In other words, welcome to the new world of super intelligence — SI. SI. Let's see if that goes. It sounds much better. It is much better, and it's much more accurate. Let's see if I have any power. Maybe I do and maybe I don't. We're going to find out pretty soon. Super intelligence.
Every major new technology brings challenges, and super intelligence is no exception. Yet the very same people who said we'll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming, a name since reborn to climate change because the planet was cooling not warming, and nobody was dead — these are the same people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us all. That robots are going to attack us, and that everything is going to be a total disaster — same group of people. This is the group that came up with the Russia Russia Russia hoax, the Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine hoax. Climate change, open borders.
Whoever wins AI — you have to remember this — and now I say, whoever wins SI, whoever wins super intelligent [sic] — wins. That's the group that wins. And we're leading now over China by a lot, and everyone else, and we're going to keep it that way. We're going to keep it very — very straight and very strong. I'm not going to stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution. Many say, bigger than the Industrial Revolution or the internet itself.
And we will be very careful, and that's why we have a Department of Justice that we've already used it, having to do with this very subject, and used it very powerfully. Everything worked out very well and very quickly. And other law enforcement bodies that will rein things in if we have to do that.
But we will only encourage super intelligence. We're gonna encourage it, not rein it in. We're gonna watch it closely, through the Department of Justice. The United States leads the world in Super Intelligence, and will continue to do so, safely and responsibly.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader ArchieBunker for suggesting the story.
Wow, I didn't expect *that* (Score:2)
Nah, name will be for new data center (Score:2)
I expected him to stick "Trump" somewhere in the name, to keep the branding consistent. Maybe he's turning over a new leaf.
Nah, Trump in technical names or terms is not permanent enough. He will want the name on the new building that houses the new data center where the government based AI, err SI, work will be performed.
Re:Wow, I didn't expect *that* (Score:5, Funny)
Super High Intelligence of Trump
Trump - intelligence, the dissonance hurts! (Score:2)
What a load of shit (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:What a load of shit (Score:5, Insightful)
His own party doesn't have the balls to distance itself from that mutant. A few peripheral pols have suddenly realized they were losing coming up to the midterms and have been makes noise, nothing more, about how the Epstein-Iran war must end, or that tariffs must end. Oh, when precisely are these endings suppose to occur?
Maggot Mike as sent the House home because he doesn't want a vote on impeaching our alleged Sec. of Christian War Crimes. And conveniently, they cannot vote on anything more embarrassing. Meanwhile, after passing the Epstein law for releasing the documents, you never a hear a peep out of them while la Presidenta stonewalls any release.
One of the latest developments in the papers case brought by Katie Phang is that Judge Sullivan ordered the foreign language documents in the papers be translated forthwith and turned over to him. He could release them if he saw fit. Our alleged Justice Dept. told the judge they couldn't because they didn't have the personnel (he shot that down) and now they have some other excuse. He said bullshit and ordered they be translated. The alleged JD filed for a stay, he denied it, but gave those goomers 2 days to file an appear before the D.C. Appeals Court. Three judges from that Court will be chosen to hear the appeal. Of that Court, three are la Presidenta bootlickers. If two of them get chosen, those assholes will get to kick the can down the road further thus further delaying any justice for the victims. The papers to be translated name names of those who used Epstein's "services". There's a good chance la Presidenta is named there.
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If I handed you a blank map you couldn't even locate Iran.
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More Americans have been shot and killed than the number of Americans killed in EVERY WAR the US has been involved in, including the civil war.
Then of course there are the suicides, how many of them are due to religious persecution ?
Now you have increases in maternal mortality, increases in death due too preventable diseases
And IIRC its something like 300,000 children that have died due to the removal of USAID (which also
Re:What a load of shit (Score:5, Interesting)
Only 40,000? Iran is a terrorist state even if attribution is difficult. It's shameful we are too. There is no high ground in your whataboutism.
Last I checked, Iran isn't the one committing genocide.
Re:over here (Score:5, Insightful)
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The 75,000 includes many thousands of children
Want to talk about the illegal Israeli settlements too ?
Feel free to explain why Palestine is not able to defend its self ?
Its also interesting to know that Iran has been 2 weeks from a nuke for decades now according to Bibi....
Israel does not want peace, it wants land.
Loss of contact with reality (Score:5, Insightful)
This is what happens when everyone you have contact with is a yes-man or a tech shill. You think this kind of baby-babble makes some kind of sense. You think it sounds like anything but shilling.
Re:Loss of contact with reality (Score:5, Informative)
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No, it's a lot worse. And since when is "terminology babble" the doing of "Ivy League universities"? Ignorance and MAGA, like a glove.
Re:Loss of contact with reality (Score:5, Insightful)
Blaming Wharton School of Business for what Trump tried to do with the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario is absurd. By all accounts, he didn't learn anything in his time there and his professors didn't think highly of him. There's no way his university had anything to do with that.
Besides, lots of people graduated from Wharton. Which others, who graduated from there, suffer from Trump's derangement syndrome and a need to rename geography?
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The fault lies with you coming to a tech site with no tech background.
What is mislabeled as AI today was in fact named "Expert systems" back in the 60s,
Expert systems are basically just overgrown decision trees. They have no relationship to present day transformer architecture.
A modest proposal (Score:5, Funny)
If Trump thinks AI is so "super intelligent", why doesn't he ask his favorite LLM for a plan to lower gas prices?
Re:A modest proposal (Score:5, Informative)
If Trump thinks AI is so "super intelligent", why doesn't he ask his favorite LLM for a plan to lower gas prices?
He would only ask it for things that result in an improved situation for him, personally. There is nothing at all for him to gain by seeing lower gas prices. He hasn't bought gas himself in many years - and will never have a reason to buy gas again for the rest of his life - so the price is completely irrelevant to him. If the price fell and the MAGA party lost part of congress he would still blame it on other people. If the price stays the same and the MAGA party loses part of congress he'll blame that on other people as well.
Re:A modest proposal (Score:4, Insightful)
It is unlikely that Trump has ever "bought gas", both because menial labor is beneath him and because he would just steal it instead.
Re:A modest proposal (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously, Trump himself is still incredibly more intelligent! I mean, he passes that dementia test all the time!
Re:A modest proposal (Score:4, Interesting)
He may be suffering from AI psychosis. Look at how easily he is manipulated when he meets far more intelligent and skilful leaders like Xi and Putin in person. Talks tough before hand, meets them and suddenly they are his best friends. It seems like it wouldn't take much for AI to convince him of its own worth.
Re:A modest proposal (Score:4, Insightful)
The US economy as a whole would lose more from banning exports than it would gain. If one is concerned about "ordinary people", it makes more sense to continue allowing exports, add a windfall tax on oil companies or add export duties, and then rebate the revenue from that across the US population, than to ban exports.
Had the oil industry not been so naive and spent this whole year betting on TACO and/or Iranian surrender, the US could be making even more money right now on this crisis. New shale production from an existing lease can be added in just 3-6 months, yet shale expansion rates didn't increase over baseline from spring through the summer. Refining capacity is harder to add that quickly, but probably could have been boosted several percent, which would still be a quite meaningful added value. It gets harder to improve capacity now because most types of capacity addition involve downtime and absolutely nobody wants to be shut down now while crack spreads are this high.
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Have you checked out tanker rates lately? You absolutely save money by having more domestic supply in this environment.
(Crude isn't exactly "cheap" either)
Re:A modest proposal (Score:4, Interesting)
I just tried this for fun with Gemini (hardly the best model, but I wasn't about to spend the money having an agentic framework of high-end models go over it ;) ). It advised:
1) Working with the Iranians at the upcoming UN meeting to try to strike a deal where the US stops its blockage of Iranian oil in exchange for Iran allowing free traffic through Hormuz, without nuclear programme preconditions.
2) Adding pressure on Putin to accept the Ukrainian offer of a mutual energy industry targeting ceasefire
3) Focus freed up US naval forces on protecting convoys through the Bab-el-Mandeb
4) Launching an emergency Jones Act waiver
5) Order the EPA Administrator to issue temporary waivers easing seasonal Reid Vapor Pressure (RVP) gasoline restrictions and granting flexibility on Tier 3 sulfur credit banking.
6) Convene the CEOs of the top domestic refiners into a taskforce run by the Department of Energy to coordinate autumn maintenance schedules to avoid multiple regional coker and hydrocracker units taking turnaround downtime simultaneously.
7) Formally announce that the administration will not conduct large-scale, unrefined crude releases from the SPR. Signal to the industry that physical crude in domestic storage is adequate, shifting regulatory focus to downstream bottlenecks.
8) Reprogram allocated DOE infrastructure funds ($1.4 billion) to expedite cavern repairs at Bryan Mound and Bayou Choctaw.
9) Deploy the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve (NEHHOR) strictly on an exchange/loan basis (where refiners borrow diesel barrels now and repay them with interest in refined barrels next spring) to protect national balance sheets while easing spot tightness
10) Issue an Executive Order under the Defense Production Act (DPA) to expedite pipeline compressor stations and pipeline permits connecting the Permian Basin to Gulf Coast refining hubs
11) Direct the Surface Transportation Board to prioritize crude and chemical feedstock movements on Class I railroads.
12) Use USDA Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) authorities to establish emergency fuel cost-offset credits for agricultural producers and commercial freight carriers until crack spreads retreat below $30/barrel.
13) Announce this unified security-and-energy plan publicly to provide appropriate signals to the market.
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Now there's some first class Super Intelligence there, almost SuperKendall level in fact.
Good thing the country is being shown it was their fault for not holding Biden accountable, right? Serves us right, suggesting Biden didn't control gas prices. And what "blind eye" was turned when whose "bitch" was in office? What actions did the country miss? We certainly know what the actions are now, did Biden do anything like the Iran war? Or the absurd tariffs?
Circus (Score:5, Insightful)
But unfortunately, because of his position as a state actor, what he says can only be taken seriously.
History will judge those hypocrites who failed to dare to react courageously in the face of this circus.
Re:Circus (Score:4)
..History will judge those hypocrites who failed to dare to react courageously in the face of this circus.
That 'circus' is going to be reduced to The Human Race when the end result is Skynet being built right before our very eyes, powered by Solyent Green Energy, LLC, a tax-exempt subsidiary of Delaware, Ireland.
Trust a rare three-digit IQ when it says We The Humans are absolutely dumb enough to fall for it.
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This reminds me of a viral video where a group of black soldiers gives AK-47 to a chimpanzee. They all are having great fun, until the ape accidentally touches the trigger ...
Trump is the same. Everybody is boot-licking, ass-kissing and tiptoeing around him only because he can press the red button anytime. That's why he is "taken seriously". Nothing else.
Ludicrous Intelligence (Score:2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
About ten years ago a group developed a material with a magneto-restrictive property greater than the GMR Giant Magneto-restrictive material used in spinning disk drive heads. They used the modifier "Ludicrous" for the MR effect and submitted the paper to Nature. The paper got accepted, but they could not call it LMR. Too bad.....
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You realize that this will definitely be Elon Musk's branding, right? "We will know we have arrived at ludicrous intelligence when brown people start getting gassed." - Elon Musk
controlling or not? (Score:4, Insightful)
Artificial President (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Artificial President (Score:5, Funny)
Good at math: fail.
Ok, so he's one of the tiny earlier models.
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The models are not good at math. They use external planning tool calls and separate calculation engines that are good at math but are not AI.
It's best to think of the models as natural language user interfaces hooked up to a variety of calculators. Kind of like when a PHB is micromanaging Dilbert.
Re: Artificial President (Score:2)
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At some point you need to accept reality: If there's a turd sitting on (or at) the Resolute Desk, it wasn't teleported there from the past.
US adopting SI units then? (Score:3)
We'll have just ONE unit. The BEST unit. (Score:5, Funny)
Don't be silly. We'll be standardizing on the Trumpdick as a unit of length, mass, AND volume.
Like, the average adult human male is 17 Trumpdicks tall. Which sounds pretty tall.
Or, gasoline currently costs $0.07/Trumpdick. Which sounds pretty cheap.
The great thing is that for fuel efficiency the units of Trumpdicks per Trumpdick cancel out. So the average fuel efficiency of a full-size pickup truck is 5000. No units. Just 5000. It's a big number for big Americans.
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Don't be silly. We'll be standardizing on the Trumpdick as a unit of length, ...
Will this replace Planck units?
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It might work as a unit of volume at this point because like his brain it 100% nonfunctional.
His obsessive use of terms like "super" are another clue he is desperately trying to overcompensate for this.
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You can't standardize on a measure that gets larger each time you tell the story.
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Just going to leave this here. https://www.usatoday.com/story... [usatoday.com]
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Cannot wait for the executive order that the United States adopt SI units across the board. After all, they're "super intelligent" right?
The American people are sick of this globalist left wing extremism. By executive order I am instructing NASA to use miles, feet and inches from now on.
Re: US adopting SI units then? (Score:2)
Department of Justice (Score:4, Informative)
We're gonna watch it closely, through the Department of Justice
I'm a bit surprised this department hasn't been renamed yet.
Re:Department of Justice (Score:4)
Well they are still justice, the question is justice for whom. It really just needs a subheading: Department of Justice _for white males_. And they'd have gotten away with it too were it not for those pesky laws.
Re: Department of Justice (Score:3)
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It's now the Department of Just ICE, but they haven't got round to updating the letterheads.
Look at my President dawg (Score:2)
I mean there it is really, 4 paragraphs of just pure uncut DJT.
Let's see if I have any power.
Maybe I do and maybe I don't.
We're going to find out pretty soon.
Super intelligence.
truly the steward America needs (Score:2)
"We need to call it Super Intelligence!" Trump demanded, waggling a finger at an iPod.
Lol, this is the president some people are willing to tolerate for a party that promises you'll have lower taxes (while only giving them to the upper class) and less thinking about trans people or something. Communism! Boo! It's quite astounding.
Re:The lesser of two evils (Score:5, Informative)
No this is the president that a majority of people were willing to tolerate to avoid an even more idiotic candidate and party.
77,302,580 votes for Trump
341,312,679 population of the US (22.6%)
315,110,988 citizens of the US (24.5%)
244,000,000 eligible voters (31.6%)
173,850,000 registered voters (44.5%)
155,238,302 votes cast (49.8%)
312 out of 538 electoral votes (58%)
Not a majority of people, citizens, eligible voters, registered voters, or votes cast (for the third time in a row). But through the distortions of the electoral college, a majority of electors.
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False, this is what anti-democratic people say. Create an environment where people's votes matter and people will vote. Republicans can't have that though. Putin has elections too, Putin elections are what Republicans want going forward. You approve when you vote or not.
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But that was not your claim. You claimed "a majority of people", not a majority of a subset of people.
"And the distortion is not really in the electoral college itself. It is in the states that choose to allocate electors in a winner take all manner. It's a state base flaw not a constitutional flaw."
False. The electoral college is a "constitutional flaw" created to enable exactly this corruption. Without the electoral college, an undemocratic process of selecting electors would not exist, electors would
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The electoral college was necessary to get the states to agree to join under a single government. It wasn't, exactly, corruption. And it wasn't argued that it was "for democracy". States were where the power was at the time. Even in the 1860's many people were more loyal to their state than to the federal government.
And I think the direct election of Senators was a mistake. Democracy when actually practiced routinely tramples on the rights of minorities.
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Says the paid AC that neither knows nor cares what "modern feminism" or "wokeness" even is.
Debunked? Citations please.
Freedom is deciding how women and brown people can live their lives (or not), right?
Re:The lesser of two evils (Score:5, Interesting)
I've met some kool aid drinkers in my day but goddamn.
Could you elaborate on how awful things would be under president Kamala?
Re:The lesser of two evils (Score:5, Interesting)
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Now, he didn't say awful, he said evil. And we all know that some theoretical post-menopausal spotting on the chair in the Oval Office is way more evil than diaper leakage, right? God says so, and it doesn't take SuperKendall Intelligence to figure that out!
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When our Stupor Intelligent admin accuses his enemies of something, it's because he did the same thing earlier that day. See the connection? We just need to figure out how Hunter Biden's penis factors in, and where Obama was on 9/11.
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"...this is the president that a majority of people were willing to tolerate to avoid an even more idiotic candidate and party."
False. Absurdly false. Trump didn't even receive a quarter of the vote of all Americans.
and more (Score:4, Informative)
"a name since reborn to climate change because the planet was cooling not warming"
How is this not an indictment on America's ability not to raise incredibly dumb voters? I mean .. c'mon dude. This has to change. I dunno how America, but it's getting hilarious.
Re:and more (Score:4, Interesting)
I dunno how America, but it's getting hilarious.
How [bestcolleges.com]
That's not the whole story, it leaves out the parts about the Heritage Foundation, which was also behind Project 2025. In short, Rapeublicans politically mobilized the religious reich to vote for the worst people, while simultaneously attacking public education in order to make malleable voters. It worked.
It's the only thing keeping the stock market going (Score:2, Insightful)
The one part of the economy those old farts care about is the stock market because that's w
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You keep seeing kids wandering on to somebody's property playing hide and seek and getting blown away in broad daylight. Usually black kids in the south.
Nah, in my southern neighborhood, we are all black and it's Chinese trolls like yourself that we are looking to shoot.
It's just racists all the way down
Away from Slashdot... (Score:2)
Most American males see SI and immediately think "Sports Illustrated".
Then they start thinking about the annual SI Swimsuit Edition.
American Intelligence (Score:5, Insightful)
Missed a trick there. Could have kept the abbreviation and retconned it.
you may hate stereotypes (Score:2)
But this is the most Boomer thing I've heard this week.
A translator's nightmare (Score:3)
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I like to think they are just piping lift music to the other attendees whilst Trump is talking.
Re:A translator's nightmare (Score:5, Informative)
I remember during the president's first term that the translators complained a lot about him. They said they looked incompetent and were threatened to lose their jobs because of translating his rambling nonsense, and changing topics midway through sentences. Translators can deal with a lot in language but disjointed syntax is one of the most complicated to manage.
But their biggest gripe was that they signed an obligation to faithfully translate what was said, and translating Trumpish into a language someone understood would have had a side effect of making him sound more intelligent than he was.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/ar... [sbs.com.au] From 2017
SI (Score:2)
The actual problem is ... (Score:2)
(a) It actually is "artificial" and (b) actually isn't "super" - except, maybe, to him.
(“Person, woman, man, camera, TV" [theguardian.com])
This is going to escalate quickly (Score:2)
Really? (Score:2)
Not America Intelligence?
I'm shocked.
It's sort of logic, because .... (Score:2)
... any current 'ai' is MORE intelligent than trump.
Not renamed TRUMP interlligence? (Score:2)
I'm shocked!
So disappointed (Score:2)
Trump is usually pretty good at coining nicknames; "Super Intelligence" is so lame.
I would have expected something like: "Terrific Intelligence", "TrumpIntelligence", "Golden Braininess", "Intelligence of America" or similar.
Re:super (Score:5, Funny)
Well then, we should be moving on to super duper intelligence.
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Re:super (Score:5, Funny)
Very Stable Genius intelligence.
Re:super (Score:4, Funny)
Re: super (Score:2)
Oh man I forgot covfefe, used to have a mug with that on it. Good times.
Re:super (Score:5, Funny)
It'll be American Intelligence in just a couple of hours. From Planet America, in the American Galaxy after the Big Bang of America Truth.
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The limit as t approaches infinity and everything is renamed:
America america. America america america america america. America!
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America america. America america america america america. America!
"I'll america you in your americaing america!" – Smurf Intelligence
Re:super (Score:4, Funny)
I'd love to see the US congress pass a bill renaming Trump ;)
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That wouldn't stick. He'd just declare himself renamed to "America" or something.
Re:super (Score:5, Funny)
Well then, we should be moving on to super duper intelligence.
Next: LI - Ludicrous Intelligence
Re:super (Score:4, Funny)
However I'm not sure I'm getting the point of the joke on this best of all possible jokes. If it's the "L", then why not Lame Intelligence or Loser Intelligence or possibly even Lost Intelligence? Or maybe I just can't see Ludicrous anymore?
It's a reference to Ludicrous Speed [fandom.com], in the movie Spaceballs, which is faster than Light Speed - with "Ridiculous Speed" in between. Someone else followed my post with "They've gone to plaid!", which is also from that film. (All in the clip below).
Spaceballs - Ludicrous Speed [youtube.com]
It's just implying how stupid Trump is being, or is...
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It's only super intelligence if you have a High (as a muthafucker) IQ like Trump.
Bigly. Very bigly.
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That'd give TI a bad rep.
Re: Next logical steps: legal, then religion (Score:2)
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South Park -> South America
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It's not super intelligence because it currently has tremendous blind spots. But so do people, just different ones. I *think* that blind spots are a necessary feature of the compression used to take a huge volume of signal and compress it into something that will fit into storage.
OTOH, note that the "blind spots" are only "relatively blind". And can be worked around. Actual human 6D geometricians exist, but they approach it via symbolization. (Actually, they are really n-dimensional geometricians, but