Stamets, 6 months ago

What I’m referencing with the title? Absolutely. Couldn’t get into the games personally but the side quest about the lady and her pan cracks me up.

Stamets, 6 months ago

I have my ways

Stamets, 6 months ago

I wish

Stamets, 6 months ago

There is no context. It’s just a random shitpost.

Stamets, 6 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

He was part of a team that created devices allowing people to play what they wanted on switch, 3DS and some other consoles. He was convicted of fraud and imprisoned for two years before being released. He still has to pay off a fine of 10 million dollars so Nintendo is garnishing his wages for the rest of his life. Which pisses me off because he’s on Disability in Canada which is barely enough to live on (trust me…) and also taxpayer funds. Not to mention that there is no way in fucking hell that his part in all of this adds up to $10 million dollars in lost revenue for Nintendo which is exactly why that fine was applied.

Edit: Apparently disability can’t be garnished. Was a slight fuck up on my end. I had misremembered something and misread something which led to that. Nonetheless, situation still massively fucked for applying a $10 million (well, 14.5 million but 10 million of that is for Nintendo) fine for a dude who made $320,000 off of the hacks. However if he did make any money outside of Disability, they would immediately be entitled to 30% of it. Fucking insane.

Stamets, 6 months ago

Nah, what’s weird is for you to openly lie and make shit up for no reason.

He made $320,000 over a 7 year period.

Source.

Stamets, 6 months ago

So you have no sources other than what you think?

Yeah I’m going to stick with the documents that were shown in legal proceedings, thanks.

Stamets, 6 months ago

It was put through the American Legal system. There is absolutely zero reason to believe that the justice system of America actually contains any justice in the first place. Of course they sided with the international corporation to fuck over a disabled 50 year old.

Stamets, 6 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

So… again… you have no sources other than what you think? Either offer sources that back up your claims or stop making comments that are immediately proven false.

I also did believe that they could because I misread something. That’s on me and has been edited. Next time I would also recommend trying to correct someone by acting like an adult instead of whatever this behavior is. Sorry about the mistake but you really could have addressed that with a very different attitude.

Lastly, the actual issue is a misrepresentation on how much lost revenue Nintendo gained from this man. Piracy is a factor. It is not the driving force.

Stamets, 6 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

He actually lives in Canada. Your comment still applies overall as it is not feasible to live adequately on disability here but he’s not in the US.

Stamets, 6 months ago

Canadians serving in US Prisons isn’t unheard of. We do have an extradition treaty to the US. Not one that I’m okay with as fuck being beholden to American laws while never stepping foot in the country. However he wasn’t even in Canada. He was in the Dominican Republic at the time that he was caught. He was extradited from there to the United States where he served 2 years before being released and repatriated back to Canada.

Stamets, 6 months ago

I wish we had lemmy gold… Well this is as good as I got. Lemmy Silver.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1a7b5314-7964-4558-a4cb-97ffd8dfae1f.jpeg

Stamets, 6 months ago

Most likely rogue AI scenario

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We don’t have any data to base such a likelihood off of in the first place.

Stamets, 6 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

This makes a lot of assumptions though and none of which are ones that I particularly agree with.

First off, this is predicated entirely off of the assumption that AI is going to think like humans, have the same reasoning as humans/corporations and have the same goals/drive that corporations do.

Since we cannot gather data on this, we must rely on the inferior method of using naive models to predict future behavior.

This does pull the entire argument into question though. It relies on simple models to try and predict something that doesn’t even exist yet. That is inherently unreliable when it comes to its results. It’s hard to guess the future when you won’t know what it looks like.

Decision Theory

Decision Theory has one major drawback which is that it’s based entirely off of past events and does not take random chance or unknown-knowns into account. You cannot focus and rely on “expected variations” in something that has never existed. The weather cannot be adequately predicted three days out because of minor variables that can impact things drastically. A theory that doesn’t even take into account variables simply won’t be able to come close to predicting something as complex and unimaginable as artificial intelligence, sentience and sapience.

Like I said.

Doubt.jpg

Stamets, 6 months ago

Why do you think that? What part of what I said made you come to that conclusion?

I worded that badly. It should more accurately say “it’s heavily predicated on the assumption that AI will act in a very particular way thanks to the narrow scope of human logic and comprehension.” It still does sort of apply though due to the below quote:

we can conclude that a mind capable of logic, possessing preferences over worldstates, and capable of thinking on superhuman timescales will pursue its goals without concern for things it does not find valuable, such as human life.

Oh, I see. You just want to be mean to me for having an opinion.

I disagree heavily with your opinion but no, I’m not looking to be mean for you having one. I am, however, genuinely sorry that it came off that way. I was dealing with something else at the time that was causing me some frustration and I can see how that clearly influenced the way I worded things and behaved. Truly I am sorry. I edited the comment to be far less hostile and to be more forgiving and fair.

Again, I apologize.