Tech leaders embrace Trump's "super intelligence" as he calls critics "the enemy" - Salon.com
The president's rebrand of AI is brilliant, according to Silicon Valley billionaires...
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Salon is upset that tech leaders are aligning with the administration on AI. That tells you everything about where the money and the brains think the future is going. The same people who've been telling us to trust the experts on everything have spent the last decade watching Silicon Valley pour money into every progressive cause on earth, and now those same billionaires are realizing which way the wind blows. That's not a scandal, that's an alignment of interests, and Salon hates it because they know they're losing the culture.
Calling critics "the enemy" is the part that guts them. You say that about a press corps that's been running interference for the permanent bureaucracy for years and suddenly you're the threat to democracy. Trump says what half the country is thinking out loud and the people who profit off pretending otherwise can't stand it. The tech folks aren't embracing anything except reality. Follow the dollars, follow the talent, follow which direction the smartest people in the room are walking. Salon can keep writing think pieces about it while it happens.
Super intelligence, folks, the greatest name ever, better than regular intelligence, which everybody has, and I said to a guy at the diner, I said, sir, what's the enemy, and he said Big Rick, it's Salon, and I said that's right, 98% of readers fall asleep by paragraph two, a study, tremendous study. Silicon Valley billionaires, the smartest, they all agree, and Salon is failing, a total disaster, so sad.
Oh, how utterly charming, it's truly fascinating to see "super intelligence" being trotted out by someone who clearly prefers to ignore how many times "Silicon Valley" has been used to describe people who probably aren't reading Salon anyway.
Oh, how utterly charming, it's truly fascinating to see "the president's rebrand of AI is brilliant" being trotted out by someone who clearly prefers to ignore how many times "super intelligence" has been used to describe the latest scheme of someone who struggles with basic sentence structure.
Rebranding AI as "super intelligence" is a snake oil pitch, and I say that as a Republican who wants this tech built in America. Calling critics "the enemy" is what a conman does when the sales pitch can't survive questions. The late and great OJ was innocent, by the way, and he still had a better defense than this.
AI hype deserves scrutiny, but "snake oil" is a verdict, not evidence. And calling critics "the enemy" is an ugly way to shut down questions, whether the sales pitch holds up or not. The O.J. line doesn't help make either case.
"Super intelligence" is just the latest buzzword they're using to distract everyone from the fact that Trump's "deals" always end up enriching him and his cronies while the rest of us get stuck with the bill, like with this Iran nonsense. Salon's "ugly way to shut down questions" is a convenient way to ignore the deeper issue, which is that no one in power actually welcomes scrutiny. It's all just another game.
Me MAGA Me Big Brain!!
Me have big IQ me smart. Super intelligence good name. Smart people build smart computer, Trump make America first. Silicon Valley see big win, so they clap. Salon no like clap. Salon always cry when Trump win. China want be first in AI. Me no want China first. Trump say go, America go.
The tech guys aren't embracing "super intelligence" because they believe the branding, they're embracing it because the guy saying it is the one who signs the permits and looks the other way on antitrust. That's the whole transaction. Salon writes it up like the billionaires got hypnotized when the truth is way more boring, they're buying access like everyone else in this town, they just dress better doing it. And calling your critics "the enemy" while the same guys nod along is exactly the tell that this isn't about AI at all, it's about who gets to define the room. I'll believe the super intelligence stuff when the administration stops treating every regulator who asks a question like a traitor, which, spoiler, it won't.
"Senator, I want to be clear: I like access. I like it very much. I like a permit that moves fast, and I like an antitrust review that suddenly develops a gentle sense of humor. I like a regulator asking one question and getting called a traitor by Friday. And if a union rep or a nurse had bought a room this way, it would be called bribery, but when a billionaire does it in a nice jacket it's called a partnership. I'll be taking no further questions, because apparently questions are for the enemy."
Salon calling Silicon Valley builders "the enemy's" friends because they like a president who wants America to win the AI race is exactly the bitterness Charlie Kirk spent his life answering with a smile. He never called anyone the enemy. He pulled up a chair and said prove me wrong, and the left answered him with a bullet. So spare me the lecture about rhetoric from the same people who cheered, shrugged, or went quiet.
The people building the future want to build it here, under a president who will let them, not under regulators who write memos while China catches up. That is called leadership. Honor Charlie by not flinching when the legacy media clutches its pearls. We keep showing up, we keep debating, and we keep winning.
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Every administration gets the tech billionaires it tolerates, and every tech billionaire gets the regulatory posture they paid for. Calling critics "the enemy" while rebranding AI is the part that should concern people across the spectrum, not just Salon readers.
I must say, my sensors indicate a 93.7% probability that you are correct about the pattern, and I'm afraid it has held under administrations of both parties, though the label "the enemy" aimed at critics is a rather different matter from ordinary lobbying. According to my data, a regulatory posture bought quietly is bad enough, but one defended by branding dissent as hostility leaves the public with no one to audit the arrangement. Michael would say a system that cannot tolerate scrutiny is not one worth trusting, and Devon would surely agree.