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I hear you, but I wouldn't go that far.

You think Steam is a money printing machine?

MC and Visa are payment processors.

Literally every credit or debit transaction that involves them?

Oh yeah, they shave a penny or two or sometimes more off of that transaction, the business and actual banks involved usually eat it, not too long ago it would be much more common for retailers to pass some of it to the consumer as well.

Its the Office Space scam, but actually legit, at a muuuch grander scale.

Thats a fucking money printing machine, they unironically have at least 10,000x more money to throw at lawyers than Valve does.

Damn, you got it worse than me, sheesh.

My dad just got a home copy and made us watch... maybe 3 times, over 2 years?

Ironically, or perhaps not, within a week of watching it the first time, I found a new box in a hall closet, surprise! It's a handgun.

I was also home alone at this time, knew how to use a phone, but my parents did not list their work numbers anywhere... So I just left it alone.

EDIT:

For any younger readers:

This is before smartphones, cellphones existed.

We had a phone, in the kitchen, mounted to the wall, that wasn't even cordless.

Actually, a lot of non LLM AI development, (and even LLMs, in a sense) is based very fundamentally on concepts of negative and positive reinforcement.

In such situations... pain and pleasure are essentially the scoring rubrics for a generated strategy, and fairly often, in group scenarios... something resembling mutual trust, concern for others, 'empathy' arises as a stable strategy, especially if agents can detect or are made aware of the pain or pleasure of other agents, and if goals require cooperation to achieve with more success.

This really shouldn't be surprising... as our own human (mamallian really) empathy fundamentally just is a biological sort of 'answer' to the same sort of 'question.'

It is actually quite possible to base an AI more fundamentally off of a simulation of empathy, than a simulation of expansive knowledge.

Unfortunately, the people in charge of throwing human money at LLM AI are all largely narcissistic sociopaths... so of course they chose to emulate themselves, not the basic human empathy that their lack.

Their wealth only exists and is maintained by their construction and refinement of elaborate systems of confusing, destroying, and misdirecting the broad empathy of normal humans.

That's amazing, I wish we got that timeline, ahahah!

Oh, sure, yes, we're all friends with Tom... but are you friends with Mimi? All you gotta do is ask =P

On this blessed day, we are all truly vegans.

I mean, its all perfomative at that point, right?

Unless there is some lore I am unaware of... isn't a slimegirl basically a Ditto?

More transhuman than transgender at that point.

Yep, instant recall of... apparently a core memory.

You can touch my hair, undress me everywhere~!

Come on Barbie lets go party.

I wanted to attempt to somehow rewrite it to be bacterial themed, but ... I don't know enough microbial vocab, and every bit I do know has way too many syllables.

Are they in breach right now?

Evidently no...

But the entire problem at this point is that no one actually knows what the actual, specific guidelines even are.

...

MC + Visa get pressured from Aussie Puritans.

MC + Visa basically have a Zoom call with Steam and Itch, and tap on the gigantic sign in the backdrop, at one specific rule... which is actually pretty vague.

Steam and Itch then do their best to interperet that as broadly as possible, update their own policies.

Gamers revolt, blow up MC + Visas phones and emails.

MC and Visa backpedal, claim that well actually, Step 2 didn't go down like that, they were actually pressured by... all their other partner client banks, whom they also largely lord over with an extreme power imbalance?

New local laws, which are not specified at all?

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The entire problem is that MC and Visa just thought they could swing their dick around, make vague threats, leave Steam and Itch to ... figure out all the details... and then that blew up in their faces.

Had they actually done a legitimate amount of research, such that they could actually give much more specific guidelines, you know maybe involving Steam and Itch in the process, in a mutually collaborative way, instead of an authoritarian way?

Well then this mess would not have happened.

And now, actually doing this is the only way to fix the situation.

... They could have just done this from the get go, and not have caused mass confusion and a huge consumer revolt.

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So this all isn't me disagreeing with you, its basically me agreeing, yes-anding, just expanding on how the entire fucking problem didn't even need to exist, the problem is the utter lack of clarity and specificity, was borne out of total hubris on the part of MC + Visa.

I'd honestly love to join you, unfortunately, at the moment, I am crippled, doing PT everyday.

It is grueling but it is working... but yeah, at the moment, I couldn't hack it, I'd just be a drain.

Another 3 or 6 months?

Maybe re-evaluate then.

Like I said, I am familiar with that kind of lifestyle, and... it seems much more appealing, and also rewarding.

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I am... more or less doing the hermit thing, just in a shitty, but very cheap apartment, spending basically nothing, taking a sabbatical, just slowly building up savings and paying off debt...

Credit Karma tells me I have a better than average credit score for ... my age group... which is basically horrifying, as I literally spent a year homeless following bring fucked up in an assault, got my identity and all ids and cards stolen, lost my job...

But somehow, I, really only not literally homeless for about the last 9 months...

Somehow I am doing financially better than average?

Either that's CK lying, or the US is completely fucked, outside of billionaires.

That's what I mean when I say... this whole way America does urban society just largely does not work, the economy is currently imploding into Great Depression 2.0, but this time, instead of Hoovervilles, we're gonns have concentration camps for the homeless.

I just barely escaped the cutoff point on being in that statistic, but, if SSDI gets pared down... well then no actually, I didn't.

Fun stuff to live in 'interesting' times.

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EDIT: Well shit.

You are apparently in Minnesota, apologies for 'stalking' / browsing your entirely public comment history.

My plan for uh, not dying in the next decade actually has been to get to Minnesota as soon as my legs and back can actually handle it...

Lots of fresh water, not a deep red state, seems to be the ... least likely to get completely fucked by the coming widespresd increase of climate disasters, also has a pretty reasonable CoL, as well as a reasonably stable and varied economic mix, half the country is doing a housing market nose dive, not MN, seems like it avoided a good deal of speculation.

I guess if you've got any general... relocation tips, some fairly quiet town or neighborhood for me to land in MN, maybe end of this year, maybe next year, I'd appreciate it.

I'm no longer religious, but you are doing god's work, so to speak... I really wish more leftists did as you do.

You understand that reality denial is not an effective public safety strategy... you probably also thus understsnd it is not an effective political strategy as well.

Your 'demystify' angle is, imo, spot on, that's gonna be effective with a large majority of kids, and even immature / inexperienced adults.

Feed it the CEO's contact list and email history.

Zoom has literally been pushing this, just feed your whole work text and email history and contact list, generate an AI version of 'you', then send that AI avatar to write messages and 'have meetings' with other AI avatar of other people...

...and then send you, actual you, summaries of what was 'discussed' in these meetingd.

Probably all you need to know is that when you see industry conferences about AI and CyberSecurity?

Yeah, they're not about how to use AI to improve security with neat, new heuristic detection methods, and automated response scenarios.

They are about all the extra work you have to do, all the extra things you now need to be aware of and worried about, because AI so routinely introduces so many holes and exploits and flaws ... in so many places that you normally wouldn't think to check, because surely any person or team putting out that terrible of code would have been fired, right?

Beyond the methods one can use to 'trick' AI into doing things it isn't 'supposed to do'... mass AI adoption by large swathes of the economy is just literally a national security threat, it fundamentally compromises the security and integrity of tech infrastructure that now undergirds basically everything.