Pichai’s comments come as other tech CEOs have also predicted the coming of a new era of chief executive automations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously said AI will someday do his job better than him, adding, “I will be nothing but enthusiastic the day that happens.” Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of buy-now-pay-later firm Klarna, also said in a post on X earlier this year that “AI is capable of doing all our jobs, my own included.”

Yeah, I’m not surprised the wealthy person who owns the output of the AI tools and company is enthusiastic about his job being “replaced,” since - as the owner and therefore spout of the AI value funnel - he now has to work even less to extract the value of hundreds or thousands of human lives.

But that’s…the live action movie?

Tech bro startups.

I’d love that, but he’s buying their loyalty and everyone knows it - the co-conspirators can do nothing and probably nothing will happen to them, or they can betray him (i.e., not betray the Constitution and country), and risk some kind of retribution through him or his sycophants. They’ll choose option #2.

And beyond that, even if Trump leaves office without a civil war, he will pardon himself the last day, I guarantee it. The Supreme Court with its executive immunity decision already laid the groundwork to reject challenges to even blatantly illegal self-pardons.

I want nothing more than Trump to be punished for any of his crimes. But it certainly won’t happen in his lifetime and probably neither in ours.

DDR4 too, as they phase it out. I bought 2x32GB of DDR4 for my older system 8 months ago for $80. Now a deal for 32GB is $90-100.

The shift this time was particularly remarkable given that the legislation Republicans have offered does not address Democrats’ main demand in the shutdown fight: the extension of health insurance tax credits that are slated to expire at the end of the year.

Instead, the Democratic splinter group appeared to have received a commitment from Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and the majority leader, to allow a vote in December on extending the tax credits for a year. Many Democrats have said for weeks that such a pledge would be insufficient to win them over, since such a bill has appeared all but certain to die in the Republican-led Congress.

I guess I jinxed it by starting to hope democrats had learned anything at all about negotiation.

Anyone have a list of the defectors?

Edit/Edit2: silence7’s other post has the list, here.

Two thoughts I saw elsewhere, but I agree with:

1. The Democrats were winning the PR battle with Republicans owning (as they should) all the pain they are causing. Democrats for no coherent reason decided to change their votes. So now they probably will own this, since it now looks like they held out for nothing. They volunteered to take the heat for Republicans in exchange for the incredible prize of unaffordable healthcare.

2. The people who defected apparently are not going to be up for election soon or ever, and are in states that have been purple at least recently. Shaheen isn’t seeking reelection. Hassan and Fetterman are 2028. Kaine and King are 2030. This does allow for the possibility they are just taking the heat for something the caucus jointly decided, and the outrage by others (including Schumer) is totally performative.

[Grab shoulders and shake violently enough to cause Shaken Adult Syndrome]

BUT IT’S SO VERSATILE! STOP SLEEPING ON IT!

Right, what you said, but I’d remove the part where it increases productivity.

Yes, good point, I should have specified I was thinking of the Spielberg version.

At this point Minority Report’s mostly ordered but slightly corrupt-behind-the-scenes society seems almost utopian.

Nope, we’re getting Biff Tannen’s Back To The Future 2 reality as a base, with a free AI dystopia expansion pack.

I like Jaguar but you have to bring a lot of patience since games usually take a lot of time to get into, emulation hasn’t really been perfected, and the unique controller is a barrier to the full experience in some of its better games.

Tempest 2000 (9/10) remains super fun. But there are also versions to play on other systems that are arguably better.

Aliens vs. Predator (8/10 but very subjective) is a truly unique and fun game but has a HIGH barrier to entry with pacing and framerate issues. Like the best retro games, they really did plan around the framerate to turn it into an advantage - literally turning around to check if you’re being followed while playing in a dark room is terrifying because of the slideshow reveal - but a gamer in 2025 probably can’t connect with that and will just see “bad framerate.” You need to commit a few hours to get into that zone if you want to try it. The numpad overlays customized to each human/alien/predator style help a lot.

Super Burnout (6/10) was a fun racer but could have been done on SNES.

Rayman (9/10) of course is great, if you want to play the first release originally on Jaguar, but naturally the game has been released everywhere.

Raiden (8/10) is very good, but also not exclusive.

Fight For Life (1/10) if you want to experience the biggest Jaguar disappointment, after it being hyped up as from a guy who was on the Virtua Fighter team.

Kasumi Ninja and Ultra Vortek (both 5/10) if you want to see how Atari hoped to stay relevant against Mortal Kombat.

Cybermorph (6/10) to see what the pack-in game was like. But it’s mostly empty exploration and was more meant to demonstrate Jaguar can do 3D art a time it was trying to hype itself as a “64-bit” system.

Iron Soldier (7/10) only if you can play with a real controller and have the numpad overlay.

I’m pretty sure agreeing to the cameo feature was explicitly to find reasons to write a variation on this article. At that point, hey, she paid the price, can’t fault her for putting out the article which legitimately raise awareness how your identity will be misused.

Accusing gentle Elon of a misdeed?

Right, they have the key, and the lock, but the key isn’t in the lock, so it’s utterly impossible for them to access it.

The GOP has been looking for a truly empty vessel without standards to run their caucuses for decades, and each time they get a little closer. They may have succeeded at the worst possible moment with Johnson.

Honestly, this refinement seems like it’s gaming the metric a bit. I have no doubt there’s innovation here, don’t get me wrong, but the first two examples are not just retaining the character, they seem like overfitting.

The model in many of the images reproduces the exact same armor angle, shield angle, head/helmet angle, etc, without any modification - i.e., it isn’t learning how to reproduce a persistent character in multiple angles, scenes, etc, just the exact illustration fed into it, while changing the setting and positioning.

Really interesting article - one of the more insightful theories I’ve seen for truly understanding why people are attracted to the right’s outright lying and bad faith posturing.

You might be right, but I think the question is, “does my commitment to the cult outweigh my commitment to self and empirical reality?”

I think like in any other cult that fleeces its members, the answer for many is, “yes.”

“… And it’s not weird! Collectible avatars, it’s a good idear.”

Thank you!