[ExI] A sad day for the US Weather Bureau

[Keith Henson]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2026 at 5:58 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> *…*> *On Behalf Of *John Clark via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* [ExI] A sad day for the US Weather Bureau
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> *>… US Weather Bureau didn't have to humiliate itself by talking about
> "The Gulf of America", *
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> *Some Americans hate America, but not all.  John you are making
> assumptions about the US Weather Bureau.*
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People I respect hate stupid.  And that is what we have in spaces.

Keith

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> *>…"A broad area of low pressure could form over the next few days over
> the southwestern Gulf of America".*
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> *Rejoice John, America’s troubles may not be over.*
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> *>…**Donald's … renaming Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence is
> actually accurate, but probably not a smart thing to do from a public
> relations point of view. People already dislike Artificial Intelligence,
> they're going to hate and fear Super Intelligence.  *
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> *John K Clark*
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> *This is a good thing that this politician you don’t like is damaging
> himself from a PR point of view, ja?  *
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> *I don’t see why not call it superintelligence.  We aren’t trying to sell
> super intelligence, we are trying to figure out how to align with it.  Nick
> Bostrom went that way with his excellent book on the topic.
> Superintelligence is really a better description.  I look at the
> suggestions BillK’s AI made on taxonomy of future SAI and recognize it as a
> better idea than the one I had to start with.*
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> *spike*
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