Flippanarchy
Flippant Anarchism. A lighter take on social criticism with the aim of agitation.
Post humorous takes on capitalism and the states which prop it up. Memes, shitposting, screenshots of humorous good takes, discussions making fun of some reactionary online, it all works.
This community is anarchist-flavored. Reactionary takes won't be tolerated.
Don't take yourselves too seriously. Serious posts go to !anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Absolutely no right-wing jokes. This includes "Anarcho"-Capitalist concepts.
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Absolutely no redfash jokes. This includes anything that props up the capitalist ruling classes pretending to be communists.
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No bigotry whatsoever. See instance rules.
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This is an anarchist comm. You don't have to be an anarchist to post, but you should at least understand what anarchism actually is. We're not here to educate you.
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No shaming people for being anti-electoralism. This should be obvious from the above point but apparently we need to make it obvious to the turbolibs who can't control themselves. You have the rest of lemmy to moralize.
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Fuck them, decompile the game, write your own server. Use their AI to do it for free. Hoist the colors high.
I'm not sure you understand what this can mean.
Is this a joke, or are you?
As long as the capitalists rule if you aren't gaming the system you're a slave to it. Yes, writing your own server for a game wasn't meant as a joke. But thats literally never stopped anyone before. Not all private servers have been given or leaked by the devs. Some, like Team Clementine, reverse engineer it by decompiling the game and literally fucken rebuilding the server. There is no lack of way nowadays, only wills.
But to the second question...
They are a joke, yes. I worked on some server side code back in the day when a game server could be a nice self-contained executable on an EC2 instance. Even back then, I think it would’ve been a formidable task.
Now that game mechanics often necessitate more complex cloud infra, there’s a lot more going on that you can’t just Charles/mitmproxy your way through because it’s invisible to the client.
At the very least, you’ll need more than one dev, and that means coordination. For a ragtag group of hobbyists, AI is more likely to be a poison pill that kills the project before MVP.
Nobody ever makes jokes anymore, they alwa6s become them. And never good ones. Its very lonely.
Like the other person who replied exemplified, lack of wills. You could do it. Destiny recently ending development is a great example. It would be hard but its not impossible. One person probably couldn't finish it, but they could start it.
By stealing a copy of the back end code base then getting a team to figure it out and get the different client and server software versions to talk. Yes.
You're a joke, and one that disrespects everyone who's ever made anything.
TIL db0 still believes mathematics can be stolen.
Next you're going to say that numbers can be illegal.
Mathematics can be stolen, but it's both morally correct and fun to steal back from the capitalists, so let's steal some relevant math right now.
Stealing from the powerful is always at least a cool element.
Nooo what part of illegul do you not understand???!!!??
Please leave your toxicity at the door. If you dont want to believe its possible to reverse engineer "modern cloud based game servers" then step aside for the people who do instead of calling people a disgrace.
Interesting! And how do you feel about this 'leaving your toxicity by the door'?
Better would be to use our AI, but last time I mucked around with local LLMs (about three months ago), my hardware wasn't good enough to run a powerful enough model for reasoning 😕. I truly hope that we can get some serious advances in vector quantization so we don't have to store as many bytes for useful systems.
"AI" does not reason, so you were on a goose chase anyways.
Correct, "AI" does not reason like animals do. And that reasoning that we humans do is not what I mean when I say "reasoning" in regards to "AI". I neither need nor want truly intelligent machines. But what "AI" can do is stochastically recall relevant information and stochastically string it together to spit out useful programs. Despite the inherent randomness and indeterminacy of these systems, a good background in probability theory, specifically the theories of statistical learning and empirical processes, allows us to analyze machine learning systems, although the theory needs to be brought up to speed with the development of large language models.
In the meantime, we know that they can solve some practical, technical problems. (Emphasis on technical; I have no interest in "AI"-generated images, sounds, culture, etc. I am artistically, historically, philosophically, culturally interested in the goings-on of sentient beings, not nonliving things like rocks and computer algorithms.) In particular, I use it as a LaTeX assistant. (LaTeX is a document typesetting programming language aimed at mathematics documents. It is practically like Word for math people, but you write it like a program, since LaTeX is also a Turing-complete programming language). I already knew LaTeX well enough to do my homework in it before the LLM craze, but still, "AI" has saved me countless hours of unenlightening LaTeX debugging. It is not much of a stretch to imagine that other programming languages may someday be "understood" by the "AI", whatever that means mathematically. And of course, there have been some discoveries in medicine that have been enabled by "AI", although medicine is not my research area.
It is the cardinal sin of the statisticians who invented the field that "artificial intelligence" uses and abuses concepts from psychology, philosophy, and pedagogy as names for their mathematical concepts. For the time being, I believe it is fair to use the words (like "reasoning", "learning", "memory", etc.) with the caveat that in this context, each of these words mean to encode an ill-defined concept applied specifically to machine learning algorithms. Or to use computer science terminology: we overload the meaning of some of these words specifically for "AI" systems. But in the future, we really need to unfuck the vocabulary of this field...and take the math and the hardware back from the capitalist scum who are using this useful math to destroy the world.
rofl AI is absolutely not capable of stochastic reasoning, either... Yes, 'stochastic' implies reasoning as well. They DO NOT REASON, PERIOD.
I didn't say stochastic reasoning. I said that AI can "stochastically recall relevant information and stochastically string it together to spit out useful programs". Nothing about this implies that the AI is reasoning like we do.
What? No it doesn't.
Correct, that was the first thing I said. Did you even read what I wrote?
It was mostly a joke about using their own tools to fuck them. ChipotlAI obviously isnt cut for this job. But its funny imagining someone hunkered down at star bucks with a phone signed into an online help desk thats been subsumed by ChatGPT trying to get it to program a game server for them. New Hackerman.