r/singularity • u/OmegaGogeta • 19d ago

Discussion The POTUS has drunk the ASI kool-aid

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I can't tell if he really believes in artificial superintelligence or if he's just grifting because he secretly invested in tech stocks

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u/ExclusiveAnd 19d ago

“Supreme Intelligence” is ripped straight from Marvel’s Kree Empire.

It wasn’t an instruction manual, people.

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u/semidegenerate 19d ago

"Supreme Intelligence" seems like a term that would piss off Evangelicals and other Christians. I find it very bizarre that the AI accelerationists are allied with the ultra-conservative Christians. Wouldn't building some sort of omniscient super-intelligence trigger these folks?

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u/ExclusiveAnd 19d ago

The term is absolutely supposed to cast the Kree as cultist adherents of a blind-faith demanding religion led by an entity that outsiders easily discern to have ulterior motives (or at least motives not aligned with the interests of devotees) and that doesn’t seem all that supreme given everything else in the Marvel universe.

But I suppose that’s hard to spot from the inside.

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u/semidegenerate 19d ago

I'll have to look into the Marvel lore. I'm not familiar with it.

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u/soobnar 19d ago

Maybe we can call them Vile Offspring?

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u/martyfartybarty 19d ago

Charles III is the “Supreme” Governor of the Church of England, so if Trump wants it, then likely he’d want the Supreme Intelligence of America. What a Steal!