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You couldn't pay me to call it super intelligence. I'm really curious how the industry will react to this name split.

Kinda feels like the X/Twitter one. When someone uses the new term you learn something about them

Remember there's only one side that says "I don't want to be judged for my vote". And it's because they know they're voting for abhorrent shit.

Do you call it Facebook or Meta?

Depends on the context and who I'm talking to. That one makes a bit more sense because it is renaming the overarching company to separate itself from one of their products that is declining in popularity in some circle. It isn't unusual that people outside tech forget WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram are all the same company.

Facebook. I'm _kind_ of surprised they haven't changed it back yet, tbh; it is quite weird that the company is named after a failed product.

Brand name changes actually quite rarely take, in the long term. No point being over-eager to adopt them.


Do I call what Facebook or Meta? You are talking about two separate things.

Facebook. But Meta is slowly creeping in. Renaming a popular term takes years or decades.

Not OP but I do still call it Facebook.

Faecebook

The term dates from the 90s at least. It's not a new term and I don't think we should stop using it just because the orange one has taken a liking to it.

[0] How Long Before Superintelligence? (1997) https://nickbostrom.com/papers/how-long-before-superintellig...


We said a lot of crazy stuff in the 90s but you won't catch me calling it The Information Superhighway in 2026

But... what do we call that-which-is-yet-to-emerge if that label gets used up now? Ultra Intelligence?

We still call it "machine learning"

"Fuzzy Logic"

Prediction: One or two big companies will use it for reasons of scoring political points with the administration. Everyone else will ignore it and mock those who use it.

As for me: Like it or not, Trump is my president. He's not my dictator, and he's not my technical dictionary. I'll use what terms I like. He doesn't get to tell me which terms to use (the First Amendment is on my side in this one.)

And I consider AI to be both more accurate and more established than SI, so I'll call it AI. And, as I said, I suspect that most people will do the same.


What about venture capital? Will they prefer companies use AI and SI in separate contexts?

Do you guys support projects that span multiple repositories? (and can create multiple PRs across them?)


We do! Happy to get you set up, "schedule a demo" button goes to me: www.ellipsis.dev


yea of course. tldr: we set up a vm that the agent can run in, anything you can do on your computer you can ~do in the system.

feel free to dm me, amol at noriagentic dot com


This would be great for scammers


Tools can be misused all the time unfortunately. Claude code is also great for scammers


Wait until you find out what X is short for


eXploration?


X gon' give it to ya.


Exactly. By repeatedly saying "the definition is exactly what the EO said," he’s essentially deflecting responsibility and shifting the accountability upstream.


It’s both “exactly what the EO says” and “I can’t remember what the EO said”. He’s blatantly lying


The only way to get your account shutdown faster than waiting the 60+ days for unpaid invoices.

It sounds like OP provisioned services, didn't use it, ignored it, and is now paying the price.


Expansion opportunities


Could we build a web-based service that acts like an FTP browser for the internet?


Yes you could, but ftp:// links still won't be clickable, which kills the discovery aspect. :: sadblob ::


Funny enough, that's the camera OP used to take the pictures in the floppy-disk hosted blog!

I'm a big fan OP, cool project!


Just tested on Tahoe 26.1 and it's still happening as he described.


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