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I feel his aides are trying to distract him with nonsense like this to stop him from saying something so stupid it will sink the Republicans even further in the polls.

rsynnott

an hour ago

Even for him, this is quite weird behaviour.

Trump is currently in the phase where he is desperately trying to build a legacy. Hence all the trivial bullshit with monuments, renaming stuff, and what have you. He's terrified that once he's gone, he'll be gone and forgotten. Even said it himself - that if he doesn't do it now, nobody else will when he's gone.

Expect more of this. Wouldn't put it past him if he in Nov 2028 decides to rename a state after himself.

cosmicgadget

34 minutes ago

Florida absolutely bursting with excitement.

techblueberry

5 hours ago

What an odd thing to say.

mikelgan

5 hours ago

There must be so much money for him in this change.

anigbrowl

2 hours ago

.si domains and also it's a flex to provide pro-MAGA propagandists with a very low-cost rallying point.

croes

2 hours ago

It’s the TLD of an EU country.

More money for them.

anigbrowl

2 hours ago

I know that. I was referring to pre-registration of numerous .si domains in advance of his original announcement.

croes

an hour ago

My point is he made AI companies dependent on an EU domain if they want the new cool TLD.

lovich

4 hours ago

Pumping those .si domains

Tangurena2

3 hours ago

It is a way to shake down the AI bubble for more money.

verdverm

5 hours ago

He hasn't had any good nicknames or things like this stick in a while, this is his frustration coming out

Zambyte

5 hours ago

Huh, they updated https://america.gov at least. Last time he was ranting about this, that site had not yet been updated, which was comically stupid. Now demanding people use the wrong term is comically stupid on its own.

xvxvx

4 hours ago

I’ve been saying that for years…

Peacefulz

3 hours ago

I could not care less about a single thing that the current admin thinks or feels. The quality of those opinions are the same for the local crackheads in my community. There is not a single topic, idea or concept that Donald Trump has the capacity to be an authority of.

anigbrowl

2 hours ago

consider that this impacts every company applying for or fulfilling a contract with the federal government that uses AI. Failure to comply in their advertising, communications, or business materials could be asserted as grounds for terminating the contract. Sure, they could win in litigation but how many companies literally want to make a federal case out of it vs complying for the sake of not rocking the boat?

tencentshill

2 hours ago

He seems to be very good at getting away with things. It's unnatural how many legal contests he faces no actual consequences for, and for decades!

Peacefulz

2 hours ago

I wanted to give the propensity of gathering sycophants to you, as that is key to him skirting the law, but I don't think he can even be given that attribute. Being a useful idiot to the real powers may augment reach and impact, but only so long as that power values what the useful idiot makes possible, be it through policy, idiocy, or anywhere in between.

The money finds him useful, and that manifests as plot armor essentially as the puppeteers exert their will on society.

I want to touch on the for decades thing too, but I think I'm at my run-on sentence limit. Hard agree, though. John Trump had his hands up the right asses to make that a reality. It's never been Don. He's a child king.

jjgreen

5 hours ago

I say "AI", and so does my wife

mikelgan

5 hours ago

So does literally everyone.

verdverm

5 hours ago

and the artificial intelligence bills happening everywhere, it's often right in the title.

legitster

5 hours ago

My tinfoil hat theory:

- The AI companies came to the White House to ask for legal protections and concessions, expecting a fight

- The Trump administration rolled over completely and wholeheartedly, and the companies were surprised how easily he did it and what (to them) sane positions he took

- Trump's earnest enthusiasm for AI looks really bad by association

- AI insiders are now seeding him with increasingly insane ideas in order to create distance from the "sane" positions the industry is taking

mac3n

3 hours ago

yeah, sooner later everybody is "the enemy".

jefurii

4 hours ago

He makes his people lie or do stupid and demeaning things as a way of testing their loyalty to him.

AnimalMuppet

2 hours ago

I recall reading that totalitarian states did this kind of thing - they forced people to say lies and absurd things, as a way of demonstrating power over them (and also as a way of destroying their ability to tell true from false and right from wrong).

Well, this isn't a dictatorship, and I ain't playing along. I'll call it what I choose, not what I'm told.

croes

2 hours ago

Artificial intelligence is Superintelligence.

Freedom is slavery.

And the self proclaimed free speech absolutist can’t brownnose fast enough.

thiht

4 hours ago

No need for this, the Trump administration has been the enemy all along

user

5 hours ago

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MarvinYork

4 hours ago

K2 Horizon 0.9B should be renamed Trump Intelligence.

AnimalMuppet

2 hours ago

"Artificial intelligence". There, I said it.

If that makes me his enemy, well, that's his choice.

And:

> the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,'

Highly accepted? Let's, um, just call that "not yet proven". More accurate? Let's just say that's "disputable". New? Yeah, I'll give him that one.

Look, Mr. Trump. You're my president. You're not my king, my dictator, or my technical dictionary. You're an office-holder whose legitimate powers are circumscribed by the Constitution, and ordering me not to use certain terms isn't in there. (In fact, rather the opposite. See Amendment 1.)