No but your productivity will increase by 20 to 30% allowing your boss to lay off 20 to 30% of his programmers.

Whether you are in that 20 to 30% is a coin flip largely based on whether he likes you personally and not the quality of your work.

What AI has done is encourage every CEO and CTO to look top to bottom through there entire organization for opportunities to automate. There are tons and tons of things that were being done by manual processes because the head honchos didn't think they could be reliably automated.

Remember CEOs and ctOS aren't smart they are lucky and well connected. Nepo babies mostly.

So there is tons of crap out there that's being called AI but is really just run-of-the-mill automation. Remember that stupid shirt about how go away or I'll replace you with a very small Perl script? It's like that.

Finally a recession, big one, is coming. The 7 trillion dollars in tax cuts being rammed through the Senate or going to shake the bond market triggering a pretty large recession and there's no stopping it at this point. It's clear that senators and members of the House fear being unseated in a primary by the billionaires demanding the tax cuts more than they fear losing their seat in the general.

So what's going to happen is your boss is going to fire you or he's going to fire your coworker. Then he's going to replace whoever gets fired with "AI". Meaning some form of generic automation.

If it works then you will get a modest pay cut because of the weak labor market or you'll be unemployed if you're the one that gets picked for layoffs but at least your workload won't increase.

And if the new automation doesn't work, well you're either going to be unemployed while somebody else is working 80 hours a week to make up for a broken AI or you're going to be employed working 80 hours a week making up for that broken ai.

Think of an AI as your useless coworker whose slack you constantly have to pick up. It'll be like that only the lazy coworker gets fired. You're still going to work twice the hours to make up for it or they will fire you and replace you with one of the many many unemployed people in the job market.

And remember good enough is always good enough and your boss is always looking for a way to commoditize your skill set so that you can be easily replaced. They even have a name for it it's called taylorism.

Look at me I'm explaining. And that means I'm losing.

This is the classic problem. American voters in particular are famous for making certain trade-offs politically when they choose people who could write and enforce privacy law.

Typically in exchange for indulging in a moral panic Americans give up privacy and tangible economic goods. It's been like that as long as I've been alive and I'm old as dirt.

Unless you can convince Americans to stop indulging in moral panics and stop caring about what their neighbors do consensually behind closed doors then you can't have privacy and eventually they'll come for your property.

What I've heard is it's roughly on par with a 2050. Not a 3050. The 3050 comparisons are because it has newer Ray tracing features but you're not going to see a lot of those because they tank the frame rate on much much more powerful hardware than what's in the switch 2.

If the GPU was clocked at its full rated speed it might compete with a 3050 but to maintain cooling and battery life Nintendo underclocked it quite a bit.

Now because of the huge popularity of the console it will probably hit performance levels in the real world that exceed what a 3050 can do but that's mostly because of developers spending a ton of time and money on optimization that a low-end card like the 3050 gets.

All that said for context my OnePlus 13r GPU is somewhere between a PS4 pro and a PS5 in theoretical maximum performance. Although keep in mind you'll never actually see my phone GPU used to any capacity because it's not like anyone is making games for it. I guess I could play pubg or genshin impact or fortnite but that's about it and none of those are going to push it.

Also keep in mind that I'm not running a flagship here. The 13r is the cut down model with the older Snapdragon chip.

All of this is to say Nintendo is making a metric fuck ton of money off of every switch bundle they sell.

They tried that and it didn't work. People just wanted to treat trans girls with respect.

But the right wing iterates. If something doesn't work they try again.

So when generic bigotry didn't work they pivoted.

They focused on two semi-professional athletes, a weightlifter and a swimmer, who were allowed to compete long before they probably should have been. The swimmer is a little bit debatable but the weightlifter was allowed to compete within a year or so of being on hormones and so they ended up smashing pretty much every record until the results got invalidated

Focusing there was highly effective because it triggers that lizard part of your brain that understands what it is to be unfair. It's a sort of visceral thing.

That was the first prong in a two prong attack. The second one was implying that being trans is contagious and scaring parents with the prospect of having their son suddenly turn into a trans girl.

Those two things combined made the transpanic stick and it became a major political issue that won the election for Trump in 2024. To be fair without voter suppression and other forms of outright cheating Trump still would have lost. There are several other factors that could have stopped him to.

Trump's first and second presidencies represent a complete breakdown in every single American institution designed to protect us. Bad things are going to happen now and they can't be stopped.

The switch 2 is basically a phone soc. So Nintendo has no problems keeping up with demand. When the PS5 and the xbone 2 launched both consoles had massive amounts of shortages due to covid.

So you have a large base of users who have a lot of pent-up demand because the original switch has been lingering for about 7 years I think now and you have more than enough supply to meet that demand.

It does seem way too expensive for what it is though. Adjusted for inflation it's Nintendo's most expensive console ever. And again it's literally a phone soc. On paper my OnePlus 13r can outperform it. And it's not even a flagship. In practice being able to write to bare metal probably means the switch 2 can hold its own and the simple fact that games will be written specifically for it gives it a huge leg up but still Nintendo traditionally sells the hardware closer to cost than this.

It really sucks to be a gamer these days companies kind of see you as a pinata they can punch to get more money out of. I wouldn't mind upgrading my graphics card but if you do PC gaming you know where that is.

The AI apocalypse, and I don't mean killer robots I mean all The nasty scams and the large amount of technological unemployment, then I suspect we are going to come out of this mess with a hell of a lot more critical thinking skills.

We're going to have to or we're not going to make it out the other end. You can't have the ability to run scams and do fake bullshit this easy and not have it collapse basically everything.

Also if you have elderly relatives who are a little out of it in the head then you need to keep a close eye on their finances because every single scam artist on the planet is gunning for them and they have weapons the likes of which we have never seen.

But in America no business on Earth chases the latest tech. They will sometimes spend a shitload of money on fancy text make it look like they are cooler and hipper than they really are like how back in the day .com companies would have fancy chairs and desks. But I think that's different than what we are seeing here.

I really do think this is designed to meet a specific need but whether it actually does that or not is extremely debatable. As I mentioned before reading body language isn't an exact science and as a million reasons it can go wrong. Most body language experts when you actually put them up against scientific testing fail miserably but it doesn't stop people from wanting to meet in person to get a "read" on somebody whether it actually works or not.

Because I'm fairly autistic (I'm here ain't i?) so I can't read body language worth a shit.

Deepfakes are a relatively new thing and I would think anyone who can read body language would pick up on them pretty quickly.

Also keep in mind it's entirely possible this tech doesn't work. You are absolutely correct that reading body language isn't an exact science in any way shape or form and has not in any way been quantified. It's also a complete clusterfuck because all sorts of things can throw off your body language.

But the fact of the matter is investors like to meet in person because of it whether it works or not and there is a constant demand to come up with a way for them to meet without actually having to fly down to places.

It's entirely possible this just turns out to be snake oil but that's the market.

Voters keep voting for tough on crime bullshit and this is what you get when you keep voting for tough on crime bullshit.

Every year crime goes down regardless of the number of police but every year we keep adding more and more police.

The job of a cop is to arrest people or give them tickets. Both of which have numeric values associated with them meaning they have quotas whether anyone likes to admit it or not.

This means you have too many cops and not enough crime.

And that means the cops are going to have to go looking for crime and people to arrest to keep their phony baloney jobs.

You can already see this with a rash of perfectly sober people being arrested for DUI.

If you hire somebody to arrest people and give out tickets and there aren't enough people to arrest or give tickets to they are either going to find people and manufacture people for that purpose or they're going to lose their jobs and their damn well going to know that they're going to lose their jobs.

And this is not an economy you want to lose your job in. And it's also not a country you really want to be unemployed in. And if you know anything about the caliber of individuals we hire for police, literally refusing to hire people who score too high on intelligence tests because they quit too quickly, then you know those people are not going to want to lose their jobs under any circumstances.

The grandparent is using Trump as a figurehead for general right-wing extremism and panic driven public policy. He's not explicitly saying Trump is the problem he's just using Trump as a stand-in for the entire Republican party, the heritage foundation and project 2025 and the whole sodding mess that is the right wing strategy post Goldwater losing.

But that's a hell of a lot to type out so he just made a flippant comment about Trump and counted on your ability to read context and nuance. Which given that he is mostly speaking to Americans was probably a stretch...

It uses a loophole with law enforcement buys the data instead of obtaining it through regular investigative work.

It's a loophole that absolutely should be closed but you are correct with the current right-wing extremist administration there is basically no chance in hell of that loophole being closed.

It's like how basically everyone agrees that civil asset forfeiture or the practice of cops charging your property with crime instead of you and then stealing it should be illegal but it never gets banned.

You can't have it both ways. You can't have tough on crime bullshit legislation that makes you feel safe ala security theater and really exists for the sake of petty revenge and also not have the cops occasionally steal your car or your house.

Way back in the day a buddy of mine who is a musician was hanging out with and playing music with a guy that dealed pot.

Some of my buddies music gear was at the guy's house, keeping in mind that these were all minors this was a long time ago. Figure 16 and 17 year olds but still under 18.

The cops took everything. All the music gear that was stored there got taken and the parents in question lost their house. This wasn't exactly a drug kingpin this was a dumb kid selling a little pot on the side to buy music gear.

I never did find out if the parents got their house back but they probably didn't.

This was going on 40 years ago. And nothing has changed even though if you asked 90% of people they would tell you civil asset forfeiture should go away.

It doesn't matter what you want if you're not willing to give something up to get it. And a lot of times the thing you have to give up is complete nonsense bullshit but you still want going to give it up. And so the cops can still steal everything you own at any time for any reason.

the exact same thing is why we have right Wing extremists in charge of the government and why your personal information can now be used against you by cops without a warrant.

By the time you ask yourself if it was worth it it's too late

This places an absolute upper size on the alien battlefleet seeking to use Earth as a food source.

Well you sure showed me...

Also behold the legendary +2 troll moderation. It won't last long so enjoy it while you can. It means mods are arguing over my post. Every time they do ultimately somebody has to begrudgingly admit I'm right...

I would love to be proven wrong about America's use of slave labor but so far I have not and we're going on 250 years...

So if you are an investor one of the things you do is meet with the people you're going to invest with because you want to read their body language.

While reading body language is kind of a pseudoscience there is something to it. But you can't really do it effectively over video.

I don't know if this technology actually works for that but that's the problem it's trying to sell. If you throw a bunch of money into a company you want to meet with the people you're giving that money to try and determine if they are scamming you.

Also remember that most investors are people who just got lucky and blundered into a ton of money so they can't make intelligent determinations and decisions about who to invest in. That's how we got theranos with Walgreens dumping so much money into it they had to close multiple stores...