In July, there was a sudden spike in .SI (Slovenia) domain name sales, and now that Trump has announced AI will be rebranded SI, their owners are attempting to resell them for millions of dollars.

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[–] 46 points 1 day ago* (10 children)

No one is going to use "superintelligence".

There's too much culture surrounding "AI".

This is like Twitter renaming themselves "x".

What a stupid grift lol

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    There's some cleverness behind it. The government is legally mandated to only refer to AI as SI, so that will theoretically boost the value of the squatted domains among the people obsessed with the stuff.

    Even a gold rush can enrich a shovel salesman.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    This is like Twitter renaming themselves "x".

    Not really a good example, seeing as they were pretty successful, even if it a terrible name.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Were they? They took one of the most recognizable brands of the century and made something people tend to avoid referring to because it's hard to.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago* (3 children)

    Im not aware of any examples of people refusing to refer to it...?

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