Trump's Second Term

[Mongrel]

Did you think that Trump changing the name of “AI” to Super Intelligence “SI” was strange? Well, apparently, it was just another enrichment ploy.

Adam Cochran’s investigation shows that In the past 60 days insiders bought thousands of .si domain names. They’ve profited hundreds of millions of dollars so far.

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I also think they're doing it as a distraction. Whenever they have to try & defend anything AI they can waste a couple of minutes doing the "Well, Ackshually..." routine about how it's called SI now

 

[Andy_Ross]

The White House
@WhiteHouse
Making American Steelmaking Great Again.

President Trump is prioritizing hardworking Americans instead of foreign labor. This will become the largest steel plant in American history, create thousands of jobs, and add billions to the economy for decades to come.


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[Andy_Ross]

Pity they can't spell the name of the country.
(Check out Donald's signature)

The White House
@WhiteHouse
White House Accord on Super Intelligence

 

[dirtywick]

oh, so just come up with regulations and enforce them, easy

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Pity they can't spell the name of the country.
(Check out Donald's signature)

There's a D on the end of United. A lot of people don't know that. Dum people.

 

[Flo]

Tell Donnie Underpants that coining new names for things is junior high stuff.
"Artificial" is bad enough already. If you want SI, how 'bout Simulated Intel? Or

EI -- Ersatz Intl.
II -- Imaginary Int. Idiotic Int?
PI -- Pseudo Int. Or Phoney Intelligence!* Playskool?
I'm trying to work up Etch-A-Sketch Intelligence, but I haven't had my coffee
yet. Or enough of it anyway.

And 7th and 8th grades (no such thing as jr. high
in my youth) were a difficult time for me, and best forgotten.


* I thought about Potemkin Intelligence, but that would just confuse
poor Donnie. He'd want to make it Putin's Int.

SI works in French too, as in "Succédané (ersatz) d'Intelligence"

 

[Planigale]

This is an interesting article, generally about US politics and the use of military power.

America’s Samurai Myth

Reconsidering Obama’s Syria red line and its lessons for Iran.

www.lawfaremedia.org

Editor’s Note: Obama was excoriated for putting forth a “red line” warning against the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons and then, after a sarin attack that killed more than 1,000 people in 2013, not using force. Jeremy Shapiro of the European Council on Foreign Relations argues that the conventional wisdom—that Obama damaged U.S. credibility and Trump later restored it by striking Syria after another chemical attack—is wrongheaded. Obama’s decision led to the destruction of most of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal through a negotiated agreement while Trump’s later strikes did nothing.

First, a political scoring system that rewards ordnance and ignores outcomes makes violence cheap and diplomacy expensive. Fifty-nine Tomahawks buy a week of admiring coverage. Removing most of an arsenal of mass destruction buys a decade or more of sneering. Presidents can do that math, even Trump.

Second, allies also learn the currency of force and denominate their demands in it. The Gulf states were not grieving over American reliability regarding Iran in the autumn of 2013. They wanted the United States to eliminate their Assad problem, and the threat of chemical weapons gave them their best lever for the job. Obama’s deal did not destroy their faith in American protection—it frankly told them nothing about what the United States would do to protect them if, say, they were attacked by Iran. What it did instead was take the lever of chemical weapons away as a reason for a forceful U.S. intervention in the Syrian civil war.

 

[jimbob]

Pity they can't spell the name of the country.
(Check out Donald's signature)

The White House
@WhiteHouse
White House Accord on Super Intelligence
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We really need the clown reaction emoji

 

[Armitage72]

The White House
@WhiteHouse
Making American Steelmaking Great Again.

President Trump is prioritizing hardworking Americans instead of foreign labor. This will become the largest steel plant in American history, create thousands of jobs, and add billions to the economy for decades to come.
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American manufacturing, by a company from India.

 

[Planigale]

Tell Donnie Underpants that coining new names for things is junior high stuff.
"Artificial" is bad enough already. If you want SI, how 'bout Simulated Intel? Or

EI -- Ersatz Intl.
II -- Imaginary Int. Idiotic Int?
PI -- Pseudo Int. Or Phoney Intelligence!* Playskool?
I'm trying to work up Etch-A-Sketch Intelligence, but I haven't had my coffee
yet. Or enough of it anyway.

And 7th and 8th grades (no such thing as jr. high
in my youth) were a difficult time for me, and best forgotten.


* I thought about Potemkin Intelligence, but that would just confuse
poor Donnie. He'd want to make it Putin's Int.

SI - Silicon Intelligence.

 

[jimbob]

SI - Silicon Intelligence.

A lot could be described as TI, Trumpian Intelligence.

I bet he'd love that

 

[Jack by the hedge]

American manufacturing, by a company from India.

Didn't know that.

So Trump's taxes will make steel so expensive, it will be worthwhile for an Indian company to build a new plant and pay American wage levels instead of Indian ones, just to get around Trump's import duty. And this initiative will be entirely funded by the higher prices American companies have to pay for steel.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

SI - Silicon Intelligence.

I quite like synthetic intelligence.

 

[Armitage72]

Didn't know that.

So Trump's taxes will make steel so expensive, it will be worthwhile for an Indian company to build a new plant and pay American wage levels instead of Indian ones, just to get around Trump's import duty. And this initiative will be entirely funded by the higher prices American companies have to pay for steel.

Mesabi Metallics is a US company, based in Minnesota, but they're owned by Essar Group, a multinational conglomerate in India.

Essar Group - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[thaiboxerken]

The White House
@WhiteHouse
Making American Steelmaking Great Again.

President Trump is prioritizing hardworking Americans instead of foreign labor. This will become the largest steel plant in American history, create thousands of jobs, and add billions to the economy for decades to come.
View attachment 76336

Link

This could be true. If so, that's good news. However, building one bridge after burning all of the other bridges down doesn't inspire hope for our economy.

 

[LDE1976]

More on the Schmitt gotcha.

An endorsement by Matt Gaetz would be a negative in my book. Like getting one from P Diddy

https://twitter.com/x/status/2105270562402824470

He'd endorse anyone who couldn't determine whether he was having sex with underage girls in Maryland or in Georgia.

 

[jimbob]

A lot could be described as TI, Trumpian Intelligence.

I bet he'd love that

After all, many of Trump's speeches are now getting like "pick the middle word of autosuggest on your phone"

 

[Resume]

The White House
@WhiteHouse
Making American Steelmaking Great Again.

President Trump is prioritizing hardworking Americans instead of foreign labor. This will become the largest steel plant in American history, create thousands of jobs, and add billions to the economy for decades to come.
View attachment 76336

Link

Does anyone think this is going to happen, turn out differently than the FOXCONN debacle?

 

[Andy_Ross]

Daniel Dale
@ddale8

The Trump administration appears to have changed its AI chatbot so that it no longer debunks Trump lies.

Yesterday: It said Biden won the 2020 election and there's no indication of widespread fraud.
Today: Says it can't answer such questions.

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[jimbob]

SI - Silicon Intelligence.

It's Trump, so it's probably silicone