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AI Is Now SI: Super Intelligence Isn't Superior
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Tejas Kumar says a 29 September 2026 US executive order tells federal agencies to replace artificial intelligence with Super Intelligence while defining the new name as the old legal definition. He treats the rename as Aaron's golden-calf excuse: people made the system, then speak as if it arrived on its own. Super, in Nick Bostrom's sense, is performance across nearly every domain, which these models do not have. Superior is a claim about worth, and Kumar argues no task score measures that.
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- The order renames the same definition. Section 3 says Super Intelligence means whatever federal law already called artificial intelligence, human-defined objectives included.
- The new name hides the maker. Kumar maps super onto Aaron's claim that the calf came out of the fire, while artificial still names the engraving tool.
- Capability stays jagged. In the 2023 BCG study he cites, consultants with GPT-4 improved on tasks inside the model and did worse on one outside it.
- Super is not superior. Machines already beat people at chess, Go, protein shapes, and speed, and Kumar still separates that performance from a person's worth.
- Use the log and keep the word. He builds with AI, including the Bible app Dewfall, and says being faster was never what made a person worth anything.
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“Hence we may infer, that the human mind is, so to speak, a perpetual forge of idols.”
“any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest”
“Super intelligence is a claim about how well a machine performs tasks. Superior is a claim about worth, which no task measures.”