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TehCorwiz

I’m not using that term to describe a field of study over 80 years old.

You might as well try to unilaterally rename one of the Great Lakes.

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Or the Gulf Of Mexico.

Or cybersecurity.

Wait, did he attempt that one too?

"Cyber". I think.

The question isn't whether you will, it's which corporations jump on this. Google jumped on Gulf of America and Lake America. Will they now start calling Gemini an SI model?

As far as I know, Google Maps has mostly called stuff as the government of a country calls it, for the citizen of the country that is.

Outside of the US, it's still shown by the actual name, with the "local name" shown in parentheses.

It's a very complicated topic, it's just that in stable countries/regions, you don't tend to have direct contact with it.

At for me here in Canada it's showing as Lake Ontario. No parentheses, no "other name," just Lake Ontario.

It's true in general, but I just don't understand how Google can't see where this is going. He's going order a renaming that's so stupid they can't go through with it - he's floated the "Trump Ocean" - and then their punishment will be much more severe with much less defense from the rest of us than if they'd taken a stand in the first place.

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