Trump says anyone who does not refer to AI as super intelligence is 'THE ENEMY'(www.politico.com)

8 pointsby vrganj3 hours ago3 comments

bediger40002 hours ago
This is a loyalty test, just like the oversized Florsheim shoes. It's also a way to condition people to follow his orders. Do some nonsense now, you're more likely to run a violent takeover for him later.
vincent-uden3 hours ago
> Idiot says idiotic statement
- api3 hours ago
  He’s not an idiot. A major reason he keeps winning is people underestimate him, seeing only the clown makeup and not the calculating manipulator underneath.
  It’s a loyalty test. If you follow the insane order you are loyal.
  - yawpitch3 hours ago
    Or, and I’m just tossing this out here, or he’s an actual idiot and democracy was always a race to the bottom?
    api31 minutes ago
    All political systems have failure modes, and shallow populist demagoguery is one of the failure modes of Democracy. The US IMO is not a well-functioning democracy and hasn't been for a while.
    The failure modes of autocracies are more obvious: bad kings, low information decision making, incompetent bureaucrats, and no way to remove them peacefully without waiting for them to die.
  - JohnFen2 hours ago
    Depends on what sort of intelligence you're talking about. Trump is a con man, and is very adept at manipulating certain types of people. Outside of that, though, he's clearly an idiot.
  - Zigurd3 hours ago
    "understate?"
    api2 hours ago
    Fixed.
- vrganj3 hours ago
  Idiot is the leader of the most powerful country in the world, has a loyal following, including on this very site, and has been shown to throw dangerous tantrums.
  - Zigurd3 hours ago
    Pol Pot flunked out of a prestigious university. But he obviously had enough loyal followers to implement an anti-intellectual genocide. Quite a success. Must be smart. His followers' opinions must matter.
    ben_w2 hours ago
    > His followers' opinions must matter.
    "Matter" is unfortunately correct both then and now: the word does not imply objective correctness.
yawpitch3 hours ago
Whelp, looks like I’m THE ENEMY.
That said, from his position I’m absolutely certain it looks super-intelligent… come to think of it, I’m kind of surprised the shibboleth isn’t “mega-hyper-giga-plaid-intelligence”.