Maphacker is now 9-0 by the way. He takes a fast third and skips zergling speed but only if I skip zergling speed. Of course, he doesn’t scout it.
If you want a good example of how to game female psychology simply study the romantic drama section of the book store. The stories are the fantasies of lonely women who wish they had someone adventurous in their lives to show them a path to fun:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RksYb9HtLKU
You see, they write books about it, or read books about it, because they are too scared to have an adventure of their own. Then in comes Mr Right and like a wrecking ball her life is destroyed and she hates it until she realizes this is the most fun she’s ever had. Rules are for dummies who are too scared to go outside the guard rails.
This story used to be true because there were a lot of country girls who were tired of their lives on the farm, and who wanted to work up the courage to travel to the city. Now, it’s true because their are tons of corporate women who have realized their careers are traps and that money doesn’t buy happiness. It’s a story as old as time.
Fun fact, I was reading a scientific study that concluded nurses were the most likely to cheat on their partners of any profession. Now that’s a bad thing but it shows nurses are easy pickings as far as casual flings go. All you have to do is make eye contact, tell some jokes, and be physically fit and you’re practically guaranteed to score. I have had the same experience because I was obsessed with body building for about 10 years. I really liked the bruce lee and frank zane look. I thought bruce lee was a bit too far on the skinny side but frank zane was a but too far on the bulky side. I ended up somewhere in between. Well anyway I was doing so many sports, hitting the gym 6 days a week & doing rockclimbing at least twice a week. I ended up injuring my hip really bad. I got 5 steroid injections that weren’t helping. So I head off to an orthopedic surgeon and he’s planning to give me a cortisol shot right in the rear. Well he gives me fair warning and says the location of this shot means we really can’t keep anything hidden. We will do our best to preserve your dignity but we’re just giving you fair warning. I really didn’t care because the pain was so severe. It literally never went away & didn’t respond to any form of painkillers.
So anyway we schedule for a Saturday morning, and there aren’t many nurses in the hospital on saturdays. Well I go to get this shot and they have an x ray machine that allows the doctor to get it in just the right spot. There are 7 nurses there to give the doc a hand. SEVEN. They are all jumping at the opportunity to help me get set up. They do the thing where they cover you with the towel and then you’re supposed to expose the part where the shot happens, but there’s really no way to hide anything just due to the location. One of them is rubbing my back. I think she was trying to soothe me. I probably looked up tight. They are all avoiding eye contact but in a super awkward way. So I get 3 shots from this doctor with his x ray machine and they cover me with a towel again and I pull my pants up and whatever. One of them wheels in a wheelchair which I guess I am supposed to get into. I just stand up to go to the chair and every single one of them jumps at me and grabs my arms. I am like ladies it’s fine I can walk ok. I guess the roid shots can cause shock to the muscles or something. I did literally nothing to me. I was able to walk just fine. It was just weird to have 7 different chicks grabbing me from all directions. You have ever been touched by 7 women at the same time, and not known the names of a single one? Well I sure have.
So anyway it really didn’t take me long to figure out what was going on there. Every nurse in the building was there for that one. It’s a boring saturday and you’re the unlucky one who has to work weekends. But, then, a Bodybuilder in his 20’s getting a shot in the butt, who wants to help! Me! Me!
So yeah I am telling you nurses are an easy score. They are crazy thirsty, OK. They are like a hobo who hasn’t had a drink of water in days because he nodded out from the needle.
Literally all you have to do is tell a couple jokes, listen to them talk, and be as ripped as frank zane and you can get probably 10% of the babes at every hospital. They are looking for someone to break the cycle and the rhythm and the monotony of their job. They want something new, something exciting – they want adventure. Well all you gotta do is stroll in there, check her hand to see if she has a ring on it, make eye contact, and then tell a joke: “Can I borrow a pen? Oh I am sorry, I need a red pen. Why do I need a red pen? So that you can draw my blood.” If she laughs then ask her if you can see her hand. Use the pen to write your number on her hand. Make a telephone with your hand and say “call me”. Then walk away.
It’s ez pz. Anyone can do it, ok. You guys got this. When she texts you, hit her with another joke. Make a joke about how waiting on her text is like waiting in the ER or something. I dunno, get creative. Tell her you will pick her up. Don’t tell her that you are bringing a motorcycle. Just show up and catch her off guard. Oh, a motorcycle. That’s scary! Please, girl, as a nurse I am sure you have seen far scarier things, and I would love to hear about every juicy story over dinner. I’ll bet the stories that you tell could curl some fingernails.
Just listen to what she has to say. They love to blabber. Always be listening to her story so you can ask her to fill in details. Wait, the doctor did WHAT? How did he even know? DID THE OTHER NURSE TELL HIM??? Right. That’s how it’s done. She will be making the goo goo eyes guaranteed. But mostly she’s just eyeing that frank zane bod and saying to herself “He’s a really good listener.”
Really the key to getting the babes is understanding the philosophy of Nietzsche. You see, the western world has been captured by Socrates and his endless obsession of questioning everything. Questioning everything leads to fear paralysis. Questioning things that fundamentally don’t have answers leads to nihilism, or the belief that life is pointless. Nietzsche formulated an antidote to this poison: the love of fate. You must love the idea that fate takes you to wherever you are destined to be, and you must embrace this with open arms and without ambivalence. Why do we eat? Because we want to. Why do we chase hot babes? Because we love 'em. Why do we write essays on the bnet forums? Because we can. No other reason is needed. Get outta here, socrates, you gosh darn loser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8mRl-DT6rY
Listen to the music. Feel your body want to move. Move your body the way it wants to move, and groove. Embrace destiny. Is your destiny to look like an idiot? Fine. I love it. I love being an idiot. I love it as the tunes speak to my soul.
If you’ve never been in the middle of a dance floor with a black haired, browned eyed beauty doing the salsa, you aren’t living. You get those dance moves perfected so that you can dedicate every ounce of brain power to absorbing the display before you. The way her hair flows when the scrunchy comes off, the way her body moves, the way she locks eyes over and over – you absorb this experience like a sponge, and know she is doing the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGqznSFAUKc
Women love it when you know intricate details about hair care and makeup, by the way. Any dude will drop his jaw to the floor for just about any woman that shows interest in him, but the smoking babes put in extraordinary effort and they crave that their partner knows just how much work they put into being that beautiful.
Is her hair shiny? Ask her how often she oils it. Does she smell like a coconut? Ask her if she used coconut oil and ask her if that’s her favorite. Watch her eyes light up with interest.
It’s really not hard, but people are too anti social these days. It’s obvious that mental health issues can spread as a social contangion and the latest instance of that is in the male loneliness epidemic. Most women have at least one good friend, but 15% of men don’t have even a single friend. This is the product of third wave feminism. First wave feminism was “we want to vote”. Second wave feminism was “we want a job.” Third wave feminism is “we hate men, they cause all the problems in the world, they should be our slaves who do the dirty jobs for us like cleaning the sewers, men are the incarnation of evil also known as the patriarchy.” It turns out that when society spews man-hate some of the men withdraw. What a shocker.
When I am showing interest in a woman and she displays any markers of third wave feminism, I drop her like a hot potato. Trust me man, if I can’t fix it then you can’t fix it, ok. I grew up in a family with 6 older sisters. I know how women work. Third-wave feminists are undateable and unfixable. Don’t waste your time, no matter how beautiful they are. Love is trust. Trust is shared experience. Shared experience is overlapping time and proximity. These women can’t trust because their dislike of men will always see you as predatory. Always. Where there is no trust there is no love and you don’t have a relationship – you’re in a tomb with an emotional zombie. You might as well nickname her King Tut.
The sad thing is that this is a self fulfilling prophesy. These men are hated on, so they stop trying and become the exact thing that these women hate. It’s the logical evolution of this system. Why try to be anything except this if no matter how hard you try they still view you that way. Why put in the effort. Analogizing this to batman begins, Ra’s al Ghul believes that crime thrives off of compassion and understanding, and that society must have a strict intolerance of these people or anyone who shows them compassion. You can see this in the way twitter feminists reacted to Jorden Peterson. He found a way to reach these people in a way that nobody else could, you could say he’s the most prolific psychologist ever, and feminists attacked him as the incel king.
Men have a psychological need to provide and protect, and to shoulder the responsibility of that, Peterson understands this, but the feminists hate it because in their world view a protective man is an oppressive agent of the mythical patriarchy. This mirrors Ra’s al Ghul’s mindset because Ra’s al Ghul has no tolerance for crime and no tolerance for those who have tolerance for crime. Obviously these men aren’t criminals, they are just refusing to shower, brush their teeth, and leave their mother’s basement. But it’s the same fundamental mechanism at play here. The lack of tolerance creates a self fulfilling prophecy. If you have no path to redemption, there is no reason for a criminal to ever seek your forgiveness. That’s how you know these feminists have a true hatred, because their refusal to allow a path to forgiveness underscores they don’t want to forgive.
How do we solve this. Well the batman begins has the solution. Batman realizes that a path to forgiveness is required to satisfy justice because punishing the criminal unduly, without understanding nor compassion, is an injustice itself. So really what third wave feminism represents is a breakdown of a fundamental strand of the moral fabric: justice. They don’t believe in justice and reformation, they believe in domination. They view themselves as the upper class, and they want to keep it that way.
Now if a woman runs a soup kitchen, then I’d argue there’s nothing hotter. Nurses, well, they have a life dedicated to service. Psychologists are in the same vein. You can judge someones character by how they treat those they believe are beneath them. Third wave feminists want to crush everyone under the point of their heel. It’s absolutely insufferable.
In the end, Ra’s al Ghul is defeated by Batman, Batman being a symbol of justice. I think this analogizes well to what will happen to these women. They will push everyone away because nobody is good enough for them. They will live a lonely life, married to their cats, and reading erotic novels and wishing Mr Right could come strolling through their apartment door and save them. But Mr Right is busy dating the lady at the soup kitchen, so good luck with that. This is symbolized by Ra’s al Ghul losing his star pupil, the batman, who is pushed away by Ra’s al Ghul’s extremism. They box themselves into a corner where their only company is their shadow on the wall.
This is ironic because they’ve become exactly the thing they hated on these men for being. Fate sure does love irony.
Jesus Christ, Adventurer. Please, for the love of god, stay on topic for these threads. We don’t need side rants about life. It’s genuinely tiring seeing you post essays in every thread.
Oh boy I have a stalker and somehow the stalker is the victim. This is why you can never share your real name on the internet. I just know this guy would be hiding the in hedges if he knew my real address.
Time for some counter-stalker stalking. It seems he has a habit of randomly entering threads and insulting other posters:
Interesting. Please do tell us more.
We could keep going, but I think I’ve seen enough. Isn’t it interesting how I can lay out my plan to catch cheaters and then they fall right into the trap none the less. The dude admits point blank on battle.net to running bots. Now does it make sense why he’s so hostile to a guy who as in expert at catching hackers. It sure does.
The irony of it is that had he read the “long posts” that he complains of, he wouldn’t’ve fall face first into the very trap I was setting. But I know the psychological profile of the people we are dealing with here. They don’t have the patience to read a long post. That’s why they bot and hack. They are impulsive. I can detail my exact hacker catching social strategy and they will come right into the thread and introduce themselves. Hilarious. Easily a 400 iq strategy.
It’s very simple. You shout on the street that hackers suck at starcraft. If anyone stops to insult you, they’ve flagged themselves. You check their post history and bam here he is saying he runs bots to ban people in the arcade. It worked like a charm.
See, people watch all these movies and TV shows about the police and the FBI and the CIA but it all goes in one ear and out the other. Why do you think the cops bring someone in for questioning. It’s to gauge their reaction and flag them if their behavior is suspicious. You’d think that with how America is obsessed with cop shows that everyone would be aware of this strategy. What on Earth are they doing if they aren’t actually watching the show and understanding what is happening in it.
It’s just like Starcraft. You can proxy 14 hatch before overlord and 13 pool and it kills 99.99% of protoss players every time. They spend years playing a game but don’t understand what they are doing. Really it’s more like playing an instrument. They aren’t song writers and composers. They are just memorizing the notes.
This is true in society in general. People really don’t think about things all that much. The plumber just does what his master plumber taught him. That’s it. He might learn 1 or 2 new tricks but that’s it. That’s why Vivek Ramawhatever was really big on pushing H1b visas. There is a skilled labor shortage. There are just aren’t many people out there who actually think about what they are doing. They need laborers to run these crazy complex computer chip manufacturing machines but there’s not enough labor, hence the H1B debate. But I’d argue Vivek got over confident and nuked his political career. He’s now an outsider amongst the populists because he wanted to undercut their job opportunities during a time of immense sensitivity around that exact topic.
Smarter cheaters won’t flag themselves with this tactic. This only works on the low IQ cheaters. Smarter cheaters you have to detect by omission. Lets say we wanted to infer the political biases of a streamer on a controversial topic they are scared to talk about. Well, what you do is that you look at topics that are adjacent or related to that topic, and see if they show preference for one side over the other. So they might not talk about Isreal, but they might about Afghanistan. Because it’s a sensitive topic, they won’t talk about it directly but will talk about it by proxy.
Smart hackers and other cheaters are exactly the same. They won’t publicly defend hacking, but they just might be willing to talk about the moral implications of stealing or some other adjacent concept. Do they try to rationalize stealing? Interesting. I wonder if they’d try to rationalize hacking. You see, that’s how this works. Clearly it does because we found a guy admitting point blank that he bots. I did this while explaining exactly what I was doing to everyone.
Don’t get onto this guy’s bad list because he will rig arcade maps to ban you, lmao. Seeing as he is so easy to offend that the mere length of a post is enough to trigger him, I’d say it’s safe to assume he is not responsible enough to have this kind of power. He whines about people who abuse the arcade system as he explains that he modifies maps to torture people he doesn’t like. Unreal.
He kinda gives a new meaning to the idea of “maphacker” doesn’t he. Does blizzard need to audit the arcade for cheating implemented by map makers?
There was a poet in Roman times who noticed that wealthy men would hire guards to watch their wives, so that their wives didn’t cheat. This begged the obvious question: Who will watch the guards to make sure the wives don’t cheat with them. He presented this conundrum with the phrase: “Who will guard the guards?”. Nowadays it’s “who stops the mapmakers from maphacking.” Nothing apparently because they will openly brag about it. Like I was saying, maphacking is getting worse.
Some naive people might say well he’s just using it to ban people who deserve to be banned. Yeah, right, like the balance counsel actually balanced the game. Sure. If you believe the balance counsel actually balances the game then I have some oceanfront property to sell you in arizona. Likewise if someone brags about how they can rig maps to reset peoples’ in-game banks to zero, you can bet the farm he’s done exactly that.
The reason I chose the battle.net forums for this social experiment is because I profiled it and knew there’d be a lot of hackers and cheaters here. It’s painfully obvious if you understand the psychology of hackers and the psychology of this place. Forum trolls like to start flame wars in the same way the hackers like to abuse people in game. It’s the same thing under the hood. So we create a post to experiment and every response has been a personal attack. They legit can’t discuss the topic because they are super sensitive about the topic of hacking. Why be so needlessly sensitive over discussing how to catch hackers unless you yourself are a hacker. Case in point. They make my arguments for me. Need I say more.
Plato also expanded on this idea because he said the way to make sure the “guardians” don’t abuse their power is to educate them in philosophy and ethics. The problem with this is that it spawns a self righteous demon who confuses what he wants with what is right. This creates an even worse problem because now the abuser has moral justification for his abuse of power.
A modern instance of this conundrum is in Lord of The Rings when Gandolf is given an opportunity to take The One Ring. He refuses to even touch it. The One Ring is a metaphor for power. He knew that if he took the ring it would corrupt his soul and he’d become a petty tyrant motivated by his sense of “justice” which would really be synonymous with his personal preferences. This is an especially good comparison to Mr Map Maker because MrMaPMaker believes he is fighting arcade abuse as he adds their names to lists that then reset their banks to zero. This guy sounds like Gandolf who took the One Ring.
The true antidote to the corruption of power is humility and the realization that it is inherently impossible to wield power without becoming corrupt. You must realize that you, like everyone else, would become a petty tyrant that is no different than any other tyrant. The only way to prevent abuse is to never have power. That isn’t practical so the next best thing is to limit how much power one person can have. This is why Socialists clearly haven’t studied ethics, civics, philosophy, etc, because they don’t understand that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We have a very nice example of it here tonight as Mr Map Maker rages about rigging maps to set peoples’ mineral banks to zero.
This can be further analogized to SC2 in another way. The balance counsel clearly has too much power. Toss is clearly overpowered and they just don’t care because they are obsessed with sticking it to serral and clem. They need to be stripped of the power to define the goal. That should be given to someone else. The person who defines the goal can’t decide the implementation, and the people who decide the implementation can’t decide the goal. That seems like a reasonable way to fix the balance of SC2 so that stop obsessing over serral and clem.
As for the aversion that people have with reading, all I can say is that it’s a good thing DRUMPF is taking aim at the department of education. It’s very obvious, even in casual conversations about hacking in video games, that the education system has utterly failed. This is interesting because it’s a concentration of power just like what I’ve been talking about. You can’t put all the power of the education system into the hands of a few people at a single building and expect things to turn out OK. Play this out for several decades and now you’ve got people who think a post with more than 3 sentences is “long.” Man, I can’t wait to tell them that most books are 10000x longer than that. Have you never read a book in your life. The education system as absolutely failed if the average citizen can’t make their way through a 21 paragraph analysis of maphacking.
Honestly the way people act on these boards reminds me of convent full of nuns. Imagine you’re at blizzcon and your buddy flies in and you meet up. You’re talking and ask him if he’s still seeing Rachel. He tells you, “I put a ring on her a long time ago”. That’s when a man runs up to you and places his hand over your mouth while louding hissing “SHHHSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!. Socializing is not allowed here! This is blizzcon! We can only talk about Blizzard games or I will report you to the authorities.”
It’s frankly cult like behavior and the internet allows it to breed like an antibiotic resistant golden staph infection. In real life, these guys wouldn’t dare to even look you in the eye, let alone confront you, but on the internet they are emboldened to act out their anti social tendencies. They even meet other people who egg them on and enable them.
That’s why the internet should be reformed. Social media should behave like a public park. Nobody knows your name but we can all see your face and what clothes you are wearing. You should have to post on the internet with your real face. If having to use his real face, there is 99% chance randos like this guy won’t bust a gasket over people using social media to … drumroll please … socialize.
That’s why the internet needs real ID laws. Yep, to use social media you should have to log in with your driver’s license. If you can’t get a driver’s license then, well, you shouldn’t be using social media. The human brain isn’t well tuned for it even as an adult. Social media is crazy bad for the underdeveloped brain, especially considering the crazy amounts of harassment and bullying that happen on the internet.
Red states are dipping their toes into the real ID arena via adult websites which now require you to verify your age with a driver’s license. They are going to inch it forward until you’re logging into every social media site in a similar manner.
I happen to think that’s not a good idea, but I don’t mind reminding internet trolls that it’s a very real possibility if they are too abusive on the internet. There is a non zero probability that photo ID will be required to use social media in the future so I’d say be on your best behavior or you make that outcome more likely. Every time you harass someone for being normal you create a new voter who will support candidates who push real ID laws.
Hardly. I’m not one to break laws. I’m not stalking you, at all, your essays are in nearly every thread.
I actually have no issue with most of the content you post. Just the essays.
You’ve spoken before about “mini moderation,” why shouldn’t that be used to get paragraphs of off-topic drivel off the forums?
What? Quote the admission. I’m absolutely against any form of player botting in SC2. I’m also not hostile towards you, although my bluntness is noticeable. I merely stated you write essays and it shouldn’t be permitted, that’s all.
Never. I have experience as a programmer and using the editor. I understand how arcade maps work. Please quote my apparent admission to using bots. I never said I ban anyone. I said it was perfectly possible, even without “running bots.”
What in the hell? I’m not “rigging” anything, and if it’s my map, it’s not rigged? I’m the developer of a map, so at the end of the day, I can basically decide if a problematic user can or can’t play it. This “power” hasn’t had to be wielded in years. I don’t “modify maps,” I develop my own, for the arcade. It’s hardly torture, go play something else.
Additionally, I don’t “just ban because I don’t like you,” and, if you actually read the “banning players” post, I explained that I can not actually ban the players from launching the map.
Before explaining editor/arcade terminology to me, study up.
I’m not hacking if I’m modifying the programming of my own map to make a problematic user unable to do stuff. Additionally, because I’m the developer, it’s not cheating. It’s literally “how it is built and written.”
Genuinely, dude, I have no issue with you. I agree with a lot of long posts of yours, in theory. Just be more accurate with your terminology and don’t post essays and we’re golden. Then again, I’m just another forum poster. The worst that could happen is they get deleted due to abuse of “mini moderation” or a “ban” from my arcade map
Joking of course.
Funny that you whine about me “stalking” you when, prior to this post, you had a private profile and I did not. Welp, you’ve shown me the necessity of it due to your absolutely absurd conclusions. I’ve never cheated, I’m against maphacking entirely, and apparently people like to dig through post history to make stupid assumptions. I’m not having it.
Dude you fantasized about rigging arcade maps to reset other players’ mineral banks to zero. Guess what maphackers also fantasize of – yep, exactly those kinds of things. Now I am not saying you are a hacker but if you vehemently attack a guy who raises awareness for how to catch maphackers, while you fantasize about rigging arcade maps, then all I am saying is some people just might make the connection.
“If it’s my map, then it’s not rigged.” Where did I predict this happening. Oh, yes, I remember:
Define “problematic”. It seems engaging in normal social interaction is enough to be problematic according to you. Do you think criminals like to be bad? Some of them, sure, but most of them are like you and I. They try to rationalize and justify their actions. I saw an interview of an MS13 member sent to a super-jail and he was saying he only did what he had to do. Obviously that’s utterly false because he could’ve bought a bus ticket to anywhere, put a job application in at the first mcdonalds he saw, and started a new life free of crime. But, he didn’t do that, did he. He decided to become a criminal and do terrible things. The fact he justifies it means he’s not sorry about what he did.
There he goes being the victim again. He reads all my posts and decides he hates me, decides to verbally assault me for no reason, and somehow he’s the victim since I returned the favor by merely skimming a couple of his posts and noticing he’s doing unethical things in the arcade. So which of the two of us do you think is the most guilty. The guy giving socially insecure nerds dating and life tips, or the guy fantasizing about rigging arcade maps and getting absolutely triggered by mere dating advice that he cusses and swears at another user.
Where exactly do you propose we post this information because the demographic who needs to hear it literally never leave their basements. Literally the only place you can reach these people is through video game forums. It’s the crime of the century guys. I gave socially insecure nerds dating advice, lmao.
So anyway what we are doing here is applying some good old Southern common sense to the situation. The rule we are applying here is the “blind squirrel” principle. To quote a very wise southern man, “If a blind squirrel finds an acorn, then he got lucky. If a blind squirrel finds two or three, then, honey, he ain’t blind”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-1JZDagFcA
Now if a man attacks maphacker awareness, then he attacked maphacker awareness. But if he attacks maphacker awareness while fantasizing about resetting peoples’ banks to zero, then, honey, you just might have yourself a maphacker.
This fine southern couple has even more extraordinary life advice which can be applied to maphackers. “It’s 200 degrees fahrenheit and we out here at 12:30 in the afternoon cuz we dumb.” “It aint cuz we dumb, honey, it’s because we tough.” “Well if you gonna be dumb then you better be tough.”
Send this woman her PhD in philosophy
You see these people are social people. They get together and talk about life and stuff as they hunt for catfish. That’s what makes them so smart. They draw on one another for wisdom and experience and they have tons of fun while doing it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAKPlJw95Bw
“It ain’t spidey senses, it’s noodlin’ senses”.
If you even try to talk like a normal person around e-nerds they legit have a melt down. Did you mention dating? Oh no now you’ve struck a nerve. They are really gonna hate you now.
Maphacker is now 10-0. He finds every nydus. He finds every counter attack waiting to move in before it moves in. He always has the right tech choices. Out of all the bases with spores, he finds the 1 that doesn’t have spores with his banshees. He finds every hidden base.
I’ve got my sights on another terran. I play vs terran who is so confident he knows there are burrowed swarm hosts in the area that he scans the same area 3 times. He never sees the burrow. He never sees the swarm hosts in the position where they end up being burrowed. He just drops a scan and kills them. A terran hard countering would build a raven knowing there’s no way to know where the swarm hosts are at. You’re flushing 240 minerals down the drain every time you gamble a scan. This guy has a history of doing things like this too. One time I did a ling flood that he didn’t scout and he lifts his nat’s command center and moves it to the high ground right before the lings arrive.
It’s just unreal. It reminds me of water-bottle-cheating in bike races. A person in a car or in a motorcycle hands someone a water battle but during the hand off they both hold the water bottle and hit the gas to give the biker a boost. They will cheat like this in broad daylight surrounded by other cyclists and with gopros on top of every person’s head.
You might be tempted to think that cheating doesn’t happen in SC2 but I would point to the very obvious example of the balance counsel buffing protoss meanwhile protoss dominate almost every metric except premier tournament finals. It’s a water-bottle-handoff to protoss players, and in broad daylight, to push them over the edge to win tournaments.
It’s just the way the world works unfortunately. The powerful cheaters get to cheat because they have power and nobody can touch them. The weak cheaters are the ones that get nabbed and punished but only if they cause enough ruckus that a lot of people start to care. Usually it’s because they are abusing a similar method to a powerful cheater but in a more obvious fashion, and this makes the powerful cheater look bad, so they take action in hopes they appear to be anti-hacker themselves in banning the cheater.
There is another instance of suspected cheating I ran into recently. A streamer ran an overnight stream while he slept except he accidentally left a window up over top of SC2 so you couldn’t see the game at all. He had 250 viewers. Now who on earth is going to watch a stream with a blank window blocking the screen. Cheating is unfortunately everywhere. Once you learn to spot it you can’t unsee it.
Consider the following study: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10805-023-09485-5
45% of students admit point blank to cheating on online exams. That means they opened up a tab and googled the answers to the test. That would be a lot like stream cheating, actually, and it’s very similar to a number I computed from a small experiment I ran on stream. The difference in MMR between private and public accounts said roughly 40% of my opponents stream cheated. I changed the names of my public accounts, and the mmr difference equalized despite still streaming on them. That tells me the mechanism is that my opponents would recognize the name and then hop on stream which is basically the same mechanism reported in this study on cheating for online exams.
This is why self regulation never works. Free market mechanics are good as long as guard rails exist to prevent the 5% worst possible outcomes. Video games are basically the wild west. In the wild west, a cowboy walks into a saloon and nobody recognizes he’s the outlaw who shot up the town a year ago. Nobody cares about hunting down and or confronting the outlaws because who wants to risk getting shot just to turn in guy for a small reward. Well the internet is that but on steroids. You get absolutely nothing for catching a hacker. No bounty. No reward. Heck, you might even get harassed by the hacker as a result of catching him. Congrats, here’s your reward. Even if they catch the guy and ban an account, he just makes a new one the very same day. It’s the wild-wild-west but with billions of dollars out there to scam people out of. Everything from rigging balance to dump money into tournament competitors’ pockets to account trading to hacking someone’s credit card information. We’ve got modern day bonnie and clyde running around with maphacks stealing peoples’ mmr. I guess that makes me Porter Rockwell, the gunslinger who caught over a hundred outlaws, who famously said, “I never killed anyone who didn’t need killing”.
There’s some interesting history there that applies to the modern day scenario. Joe smith, king mormon, had a bodyguard called Porter Rockwell. Joey made a “prophecy” that the governor of Missouri would be assassinated. Porter disappeared around the time this governor was shot, and when asked about it, Joey said he went to fulfill a prophecy.
You can infer what happened here. The governor of Missouri persecuted the mormons by taking their land, putting them in jail and bopping them. Well Joe smith obviously had a beef with the guy and so he probably sent his bodyguard to clap him. By the way, when are the mormons going to be getting their reparations? I mean, since society is talking about slavery reparations and all. Mormons are pretty high up on the persecution list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1838_Mormon_War
Yep, there it is. So is Missouri going to be sending me a big fat check or what. So anyway that reminds me of the Thomas Crooks shooting in Pennsylvania. In a similar way to how Porter Rockwell disappears under suspicious circumstances, Thomas Crooks magically evades the FBI and background checks and bypasses security like he’s a pro CIA agent aka he accomplishes something impossible and under suspicious circumstances. It’s a story as old as time unfortunately. It was happening between the mormons and Missouri and it was happening between Abe Lincoln and the Confederates and this goes back into history as far as it is recorded and probably before even that.
Society is absolutely lawless when you get right down to it. The average person would go Hannibal Lecter on you if given the chance, and we know this because look at how unethically they act inside video games and on online quizzes for university. Geniuses have built society despite the endless swarm of crazies trying to tear it down at all hours.
If Thomas Crooks is Porter Rockwell in this analogy, then who is the Joseph Smith? Now that’s the question. Was Thomas Crook radicalized by internet propaganda? If it was mere internet memes, then how on earth did he thread the needle to actually get up on the roof and stay alive long enough to get off shots. It’s very obvious there was a “Joseph Smith” in this story.
By the way, Joseph Smith was an obvious Machiavellian. Machiavellianism is about projecting virtue in public, which allows you to manipulate the public, and this gives you cover while you do terrible things in private (things which help you cement your power as leader). What better way to do this than to be a religious leader while sending out hitmen to take out state governors. This guy had like 100 wives too so he’s practically going 1001 Arabian Nights at the same time too. Who is this guy. Oh wait he’s the guy who crafted the culture I grew up in. And people wonder why I rant about religious extremism and machiavellianism all the time. Just some food for thought: the mormons currently control 265 billion in wealth. They are very much actively shaping the modern world as we speak. Talk about nightmare fuel. Sleep tight tonight.
I am going on a business trip and some rando chick I forget even exists texts me and is like, “Hey, I heard you were going to be in town, so do you want to go to a baseball game.” I am thinking to myself, who on earth is this, but saying that would be rude. So I tell her I got a new phone and the contacts didn’t import properly, which is true. She says it’s Rachel and I am like do you know how little that narrows it down. So anyway I am having dinner with a chick I don’t even know to watch a baseball game that I don’t even like. What on Earth am I doing with my life for crying out loud. You know the drill. You tell some stories, crack some jokes, ask them some questions about their life, and soon enough they’ll be making the googoo eyes and twisting her hair around her index finger while waiting to laugh on queue. The last time I was on a date in that state it was to help a girl with a bathroom remodel. She commented on how hard it must’ve been and I am like yep it’s just another chapter in the saga of suffering. It’s a book I am writing and in this chapter it was like living an episode of Survivor: “It’s day 38, and I have finally found some grass I can gnaw on. I think the crows are following me and the sun mocks my existence. Hopefully I can find shelter in a cave so I can die in peace.” Well this girl doesn’t even laugh and she just looks at me amazed and says you should really be a comedian. I bounce back with another joke about how that would be a REAL chapter in the saga of suffering for sure. She’s like I am SERIOUS. YOU ARE REALLY GOOD AT IT! It’s like yeah I’ve heard that one before. I will be dating a lawyer chick and she’ll be all wow I can’t believe you aren’t a lawyer. Or it will be a diesel mechanic chick and she will be like wow I could’ve swore you had worked in the auto repair industry at some point in your life. I once had a doctors appointment with a cardiovascular surgeon in which he explained to me how amazingly mechanical the human body is and he told me I’d love it if I studied anatomy. Legit. The dude was trying to get me to sign up for medical school. So anyway bringing this back to starcraft 2. People in sc2 are like “Waa waah, you can’t build a hatch before overlord” and then I am like “watch me beat parting with it” and then they are like “you just got lucky” and now even Serral uses hatch before overlord. He used it at a masters colosseum to absolutely wreck hero’s cannon rush, which is how I beat parting’s cannon rush 24/7. It was like free mmr. So people are like you should be a pro player and you should enter this tournament and I am just like get in line buddy. I only dish out favors for the ones with long auburn hair and beautiful green eyes and a smile that could melt butter without a microwave. Do you see any of those around the sc2 pro scene? No? Ok then why would I go pro. It makes no sense to do. It’s like working minimum wages, carpal tunnel and everything, except you exchange the constant smell of cooking oil on your clothes for a lack of vitamin D. Does either one brush their teeth? Let’s be real here, probably not. It would be infinitely smarter to work the drive through window at mcdonalds because then at least you could learn to talk to people. Do you know how antisocial elite sc2 nerds are? It’s like a turbo form of introversion. They legit can’t even make eye contact let alone talk about the philosophical implications of quantum foam. What is even the point of getting good at RTS if you can’t dazzle babes with discussions on quantum mechanics?
You see, quantum foam is proof of the erosion of the scientific institutions due to an embracement of pseudo scientific nonsense. Basically, measuring tiny things is hard because to measure them you have to disturb them. Imagine trying to figure out where a car is by crashing another car into it. Well they build a statistical model and proved that within that model you can know about the particle’s velocity or its position but not both. They then extrapolate this property, which is a property of the model which is a workaround around the fact that measurements are hard, out onto real life to say there are infinitely many universes, which is a load of garbage. I am not sure if these astrophysicists actually majored in waste management but the university messed up the paperwork so I guess now they are physicists. That would explain a lot, actually. So anyway it’s obvious that these “scientific” institutions are being over taken by religious nuts who believe they can extrapolate the properties of a microscopic model onto the macroscopic real world. It’s a common flaw in religious thinking. They read a bible verse about the end of the world and go “Ohhh that fits the current world events so well”. Yeah well guess what these “physicists” are doing. You betcha. This is what happens when universities open the flood gates and just start handing out diplomas to any rando who shows up at the door with a student loan.
This conversation reminds me of a song by The Offspring:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abrn8aVQ76Q
The Offspring’s song is talking about how this man’s desires are degrading to him because he can’t say no to the advances of a woman who he knows sleeps around. This creates a contradiction in his mind, and he soothes himself by saying at least he isn’t a dweeb – he just has low self esteem. So you see this man is one step ahead of the average sc2 pro player in terms of social development. SC2 pros are perpetually stuck in the dweeb department aka they don’t attract women. They will eventually advance to the stage of attracting women that any man can attract. After that you move on to attracting a girl who is only attracted to you. If you are lucky, you enter the stage where you attract lots of women including the ones already attracted to other guys. It goes full circle in other words. Are you really a chad with a jawline of steel and a repetoire of jokes that can endlessly inundate any woman with a dazzling show of wit and charm, or are you just attracting the women who are easy to get. You see, you’ve become schrodinger’s chad. Are you a chad, or not, or both at the same time. Like chads go full circle, this conversation has also gone full circle. Who knew that quantum foam would be so useful in explaining dating. I should write a book on it. Quantum Dating Dynamics: The Chads and the Anti-Chads – is there even a difference?
Find the worst thing that aged like milk that I’ve said in your archives and the best for balance. Just like how people come on the forums to QQ about balance, rather than… gloating about hacking on sc2? xD You don’t need hax if you can sway David…
You mean on the old forums. That thing is 20gb after lzma compression and stored somewhere away in my archives. I have so much stuff archived it’s actually nuts. It’s not even worth the time to find where it’s saved, to be honest.
I am not saying he’s a hacker, but I am saying if he attacks someone explaining how to spot hackers while fantasizing about how he rigs maps to reset player banks to zero, I am going to assume he is one.
I’ve thought for awhile now that being associated with SC2 is actually a net negative to your reputation. Look at how SC2 went from king of esports to meme, look at how failed RTS games are lining up like tombstones on a battlefield, look at how even reputational and name branding hasn’t been enough to get people to play Stormgate nor Battle Aces. The people in the traditional RTS circles are becoming less and less relevant, in other words, because you can’t reskin the same game concepts over and over and expect to milk cash out of the market. Any time a new RTS comes out it’s a SC2 clone but the clone had a genetic defect and is now quadriplegic.
RTS needs something fundamentally new. Additionally, with the emergence of a new class of gaming PC (arm microboards), the game engine needs to be able to run on a shoe-box ARM board PC that costs $200 usd or less. Those are insanely tough requirements to meet. RTS simulations are way more complex and computationally expensive just due to the number of entities in the game compared to first person shooter games, for example.
One way a game studio I worked for for like 10 years solved this is to make it an MMO RTS game and so the client simply has to display information – it doesn’t do any actual game logic. This shifts the costs of game logic to the server, which is already how MMO games work, but you get bulk efficiencies since there are economies of scale with computing. This allows the game to be marketed to poor, rural areas of the planet (India, China, Africa) which means you have an enormous customer base. In that game model, you can play an RTS game on your phone, but the trade offs are increased lag. The client sends keyboard and mouse events to the server. The server incorporates these at set intervals. When an interval is reached, the inputs are added to the simulation, the simulation is stepped forward, and an update is sent to the clients. The client receives the update, incorporates the changes, and displays it. There are obviously quite a few additional steps here as opposed to simply taking care of all of it locally. The biggest delays are the communication delays (client input → server, server update → client) and waiting for the server to do a bulk input incorporation step. That means the gameplay can’t be designed to implement fast user feedback, like microing and focus fire. That’s the trade off.
This market is only going to grow because the latest generation of ARM single board computers now have a pcie 4x lane. That means you can use a desktop GPU with them. That means you can get 60fps playing Doom 3 with 4k resolution on a PC costing less than $200 usd and which fits in the palm of your hand.
It is very obvious that the RTS genre does not fit well with how the gaming market is trending first in the cost of computing the simulation and second because a rice farmer with zero hand eye coordination probably won’t be interested in the visual blur that is starcraft-style RTS which really should be renamed “Endurance and Multitasking” aka EAM. I’ve argued for years that MOBA is more true to the RTS genre than Starcraft is and this obviously causes SC2 fans to have a melt down because they have me -1200 karma on a single comment for pointing that out. But that’s reality. These SC fans are living in another dimension where SC3 is months away from being released and that it will launch back to being the king of esports. Meanwhile they, themselves, are bored with SC-style RTS and don’t even realize it. The RTS genre has to be reshaped with new ideas or it is toast.
You could argue this is a benefit instead of a drawback. I think RTS is simply way too fast paced for 90% of humanity. Is a goat herder in Pakistan going to even be able to process how fast everything is happening on the screen? Additionally, you can make the game more fast paced through scaling. In Starcraft, the way you’d do that is through maps. Some maps start you out with 1 scv and 500 minerals and you build your first command center yourself. On other maps, it starts you out with 3 bases, 1 barracks, 1 factory and 1 starport. This means the game client can eliminate the maps that would be too computationally expensive for players running cheaper gaming hardware. This alone wouldn’t be enough to make SC2 run on an ARM board, but it’s that style of scaling management that RTS absolutely lacks and which will drastically limit its expansion into new gaming markets.
It’s also very stupid of me to share all this, by the way, and I’ve felt that way for a very long time. I’ve been giving advice on game balance and game design to basically any rando who browses the forums, and now I am giving investment and project planning consulting to any rando who browses the forums. I have no idea what kind of risk it brings to share that kind of information freely. I suspect the risk is low considering how many RTS flops have occurred, and considering how insanely difficult the technical aspects are to the game engine which for SC2 is already absurdly complex but it’s only going to get even more complicated in the future so I don’t think there is much risk. Basically an Einstein has to happen to browse these forums and care enough about RTS to steal those ideas and that’s never going to happen, lmao.
To give you an idea of how important optimization is, here is a game engine I made about 5 years ago and which gets about 900 FPS despite running shadows, particle effects & water reflections: https://i.imgur.com/yjmLwgz.mp4. I’ve made other engines that are 5x faster than this one by multithreading the game logic & having a dedicated rendering thread with a custom openGL renderer. That’s what’s needed to bring RTS to the ARM single board PC market. Hyper optimization is a lost art because modern programmers never had to code games for the crappy computers of the 90’s and 2000’s. They are used to make games based on top of Cryengine or uniwhatever and that style of game making is just not compatible with future trends. Getting 900 fps in this game engine is just optimizing the rendering pipeline and not the game logic, which is the real challenge for the RTS industry if it wants to expand. What’s cool about this game engine is that it has fully 3D terrain. You can incorporate pushing strategies and fall damage for example. If there is a land bridge that an enemy is charging across, you could have a unit that is designed to push other units and make them fall. Once landed, they take an 80% reduction to HP for the damage of whatever. There are so many things that can be added to RTS but the corporate style of making a game on top of cryengine and reskinning it 20 times I don’t think will ever be willing to invest the time and the money to explore all these possibilities.
As for me, I am busy with other projects. I developed an interest in distributed manufacturing and so that’s where most of my time goes these days. I want to get a million dollar in manufacturing sales and then maybe I will come back to RTS.
Apm spammers moving on from ezcraft 2 be like:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=B-YnLoozIAs
Only yesterday they told me you were gone
All these normal people, will I find another one?
Monkey on my back, aching in my bones
I forgot you said, “One day you’ll walk alone”
I said I need you, does that make me wrong?
Am I a weak man, are you feeling strong?
My heart was blackened, it’s bloody red
A hole in my heart, a hole in my head
By the way, have you read the recent report called Superintelligence Strategy? They basically apply mutually assured destruction mechanics to AI. They assume a super-intelligent AI is equivalent in power to a nuke, and therefore AI companies will never allow their competitors to reach that level through the use of data-poisoning techniques and other strategies. Likewise, they will never be able to achieve it themselves because their competitors are doing the same.
I think this is rubbish because there are apparatuses built to collect data directly from the user. Your cellphone records every bluetooth and wifi tag it encounters, everything you type into the keyboard, every word you speak near the speaker, etc. They connect it all using graph theory. Are enemy AI companies going to try to poison the data collection by adding millions of bogus phones to the network? How does that happen in a way that isn’t obviously espionage? Not practical in my opinion.
Next problem with their theory is that super-intelligent AI is even possible. I have severe doubts about that. The human brain has 2 trillion synapses and there is evidence that each synapses has multiple billions of tryptophan which can do sub computation inside the synapses. The computational complexity of normal human intelligence is infinity beyond what modern silicon chips are capable of, not to mention super intelligence.
Another problem is that they assume a super intelligent AI is a bad thing. This is that staring into the void thing that Nietzche talked about. What was the quote? Oh yeah, “He who fights with monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you”. The problem with western society is that it spends so much time obsessing over irrational fears that they wish these fears into reality through self fulfilling prophecies. Right now, AI has no ability to act. It can’t do anything without being prompted, and a human has to be influenced by the output of the prompt to then act. So there’s still a human filter. Unless somebody builds a robot with a rifle and interprets chatgpt’s commands literally, there is no way for the AI to act. That’s assuming the actions would be bad, and assuming it would want to act, and assuming it has the means to act. It’s just wild theorycrafting with a heavy Socratic influence aka worrying for the sake of worrying and questioning things that fundamentally don’t have answers. What if black holes have infinite density? Meaningless question because infinite density doesn’t exist, so stop worrying about it. AI superintelligence? Yeah the shannon coding theorem has a few things to say about that.
It could be that the human brain is already very close to the limits of intelligence. We just don’t know. The human brain is more or less a prediction algorithm and there are limits to how well you can predict the next event from a sequence of random but correlated events. Any more “brain power” would ironically run into issues with over fitting. There is evidence that the human brain is already over-fitting because they are obsessing over fictional problems like infinite density black holes. Functionally, that really isn’t any different than an AI over-fitting a data set.
You could even make the argument that creativity is essentially over fitting. You are over fitting the over fitting, and creating new things in the process.
If the human brain has already reached practical limits for intelligence then why does creativity exist. Well the reason for it is that the human brain feels evolutionary selection pressure against other human brains. Human brains cook up complicated ways to to bop other human brains, and that means you need a more complicated brain to detect the more complicated danger. I’d argue this is the primary factor driving the evolution of human “intelligence”. Human intelligence is already well past natural limits and it’s engaged in a type of self-referential over-fitting loop.
A good example of this would be a peacock. The plumage and displays used for mating don’t have any purpose except to mitigate intersexual selection pressure. The selection pressure comes from within the species itself, from female onto male, and not from external factors like predation or starvation. I would argue that human intelligence is almost entirely a sole product of intraspecies selection pressure in a similar manner. You don’t have to compete against starvation any more. You do have to compete against Elon Musk. Good luck, soldier. He’s already got like 20 kids that we know of. We know that these selection pressures still exist, even in the absence of war, because of “the pill” and abortion which are used disproportionately by people of low economic status. It seems the intraspecie selection pressure being felt in the modern day is primarily economic status and resistance to social propaganda (resistance to propaganda is likely why the amish are booming, for example, despite their lower economic output).
AI is definitely going to change the economic landscape quite a bit because it will make people more productive. An 80iq plumber will simply consult chatgpt on the hard questions. Believe you me, this is already having a huge impact on the housing industry because plumbers have an expert consultant that tells them what the codes and regulations are and which they can pull out and consult anywhere merely using their phones. The next stage is that it will listen to what you are doing and give you push prompts with tips. Tips that are useful will be upvoted and those that aren’t useful will be downvoted and so the AI will be trained to hone in on fixing the exact weaknesses of these idiot plumbers, and everyone else for that matter.
The feedback mechanism of a super AI will be how well it pleases customers which is another reason to doubt that it’s going to become tyrannical. Too many dummies out there who don’t understand how AI works & think they need to start prepping Arnold Schwarzenegger to save them from the AI armageddon.
A big wildcard in the AI race is the arm chips, especially since they now have a pcie 4x lane which can run a $100 gpu. This changes the math for compute clusters. The advantage here is that you can buy a super cheap GPU and for an extra $50 bucks you can run it standalone. This is interesting because buying GPUs based on performance-per-cost doesn’t work well since there are extra costs to building the rest of the PC (motherboard, cpu, ram, etc). The ARM boards set the cost of all that to near zero, so buying low end but cost effective GPUs is suddenly an option. Another thing is that it changes scaleability and startup costs. This makes AI clusters for small companies a real possibility. A way this could affect gaming is through bot farms that artificially inflate player count statistics. This would be useful for startups to make sure new players always have an opponent to play against, for example.
A wall of text consists of many lines of text that resemble a wall. A wall of text can sometimes be really big or somewhat small. Most walls of text lack grammar so they are not as appealing to read while other walls of text do contain grammar so they are actually easy to read but not as long as if you were to put a bunch of random characters or words. A wall of text might be made out of word bricks which kind of makes sense if you think of each word as a brick but that would be a tall and narrow wall unless you expand it in which case it will be a large wall in general. Most places do not allow walls of text because they count as spam and could get you banned or kicked or muted and will prevent you from posting other walls of text. Some places allow walls of text but that would be weird and probably doesn’t exist. If such a platform did exist for creating walls of text and publishing them for viewers then it is probably not popular otherwise I would have seen it by now. You should refrain from posting walls of text because of the reason I stated up there that said that you could get muted for spam and another reason being that it might get a lot of dislikes or even flagged for spam. If you get flagged for spam then you will no longer be able to post walls of text which is pretty reasonable but I think people should be able to express themselves but probably not through walls of text unless you want to. I have come across a few walls of text and some of them are funny but some of them are short and there are rarely any long walls of text. Maybe walls of text were created by early internet users to troll others but that would be extremely slow because you get like a byte per second download and like a bit per second upload or something like that idk I didn’t live with dial up so i wouldn’t know about the internet speeds but they are probably accurate even though i should fact check that. People who create walls of text probably have a lot of time on their hands or are really boring or both and they might have very long attentions spans or maybe they are entertained by creating a wall of text because it lets them be creative with what they say. My favorite wall of text is titled “regarding walls of text” and it is a fun read because it keeps the user engaged but I don’t think it is a wall of text probably more like a narration or documentary through words. Though some walls of text are large, some can be small but equally as annoying. Sometimes small walls of text are considered copy pasta because you can copy it and paste it to insert a copy of that wall of text or copy pasta. Walls of text can also be copied and pasted but what normal person would copy it? That’s like copying abnormal copy pasta in a formal setting. Just imagine Jim peaking at your screen that contains a copy pasta while you’re supposed to be focusing on the meeting. How would he feel? How would you feel if the roles were switched? Those questions are of course rhetorical but it’s good to consider them.
Low effort poster: ReEeEeEeEeEeEee me not have iq to read more than 3 word!
We’re going to develop a reading strategy for you. Treat the long post like a bunch of small 3 word posts. Problem solved.
These forums are the incarnation of karen culture because complaining about the length of a post is like going to a restaurant and then complaining to the manager about the color of another customer’s shirt. It’s like, cupcake, nobody cares what you think and you certainly aren’t entitled to demand someone else change to match your preferences. It’s an absolute joke that that mentality exists out there. Rich daddy, never told no in their entire lives, thinks they get to micromanage everyone around – yep, karen culture. Go start a fashion line or something and leave normal people alone.
Shawty’s like a melody in my head
That I can’t keep out, got me singin’ like
Na, na, na, na everyday
It’s like my iPod’s stuck on replay, replay
Shawty’s like a melody in my head
That I can’t keep out, got me singin’ like
Na, na, na, na everyday
It’s like my iPod’s stuck on replay, replay
Remember the first time we met
You was at the mall with your friend
I was scared to approach you
But then you came closer
Hopin’ you would give me a chance
Who would have ever knew
That we would ever be more than friends
We’re real worldwide, breakin’ all the rules
She like a song played again and again
That girl like somethin’ off a poster
That girl is a dime they say
That girl is a gun to my holster
She’s runnin’ through my mind all day, hey
Shawty’s like a melody in my head
That I can’t keep out, got me singin’ like
Na, na, na, na everyday
It’s like my iPod’s stuck on replay, replay
Shawty’s like a melody in my head
That I can’t keep out, got me singin’ like
Na, na, na, na everyday
It’s like my iPod’s stuck on replay, replay
See you been all around the globe
Not once did you leave my mind
We talk on the phone
From night till the morn
Girl, you really change my life
Doin’ things I never do
I’m in the kitchen’ cookin’ things she likes
We’re real worldwide, breakin’ all the rules
Someday I wanna make you my wife
That girl like somethin’ off a poster
That girl is a dime they say
That girl is the gun to my holster
She’s runnin’ through my mind all day, hey
Shawty’s like a melody in my head
That I can’t keep out, got me singin’ like
Na, na, na, na everyday
It’s like my iPod’s stuck on replay, replay
Shawty’s like a melody in my head
That I can’t keep out, got me singin’ like
Na, na, na, na everyday
It’s like my iPod’s stuck on replay, replay
I can be your melody
Oh girl, I could write you a symphony
The one that could fill your fantasies
So come, baby girl, let’s sing with me, hey
I can be your melody
Oh girl, I could write you a symphony
The one that could fill your fantasies
So come, baby girl, let’s sing with me, hey
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na
Shawty got me singin’
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na
Now she got me singin’
Shawty’s like a melody in my head
That I can’t keep out, got me singin’ like
Na, na, na, na everyday
It’s like my iPod’s stuck on replay, replay
Shawty’s like a melody in my head
That I can’t keep out, got me singin’ like
Na, na, na, na everyday
It’s like my iPod’s stuck on replay, replay
Three days before business trip begins. Get a phone call from an old friend, who played protoss at a m1 level years ago, asking for my help on a startup. Two days before, a phone call from a friend and he needs help with his house (he lives 2 hours away). Day before trip, get a text from a manager at a hospital and they need some parts fabricated. Apparently a particular part in a large assembly gets lost, and the whole assembly has to be replaced. I am not even a part fabricator, it’s just a random chick I took on a date and she remembered I build and prototype robotics for a hobby and so she thought of me when this issue came up at a meeting. So now I guess I am going to be a parts fabricator for local hospitals on top of everything else. I don’t even remember this chicks name. I need to start wearing a hidden camera that does facial recognition and gives me their names by pushing a prompt to my smart watch, lmao, with a short description of how I know them and our history.
I met only two people IRL through sc2. One was a long term friend, been friends for like 10 years now, and he’s the one texting me about his startup, and the other one was the “one who got away” and I totally would’ve married her if we didn’t have different paths in life. Now we’re just friends with benefits who hook up on occasion. Every other person I’ve ever met through sc2 social media, by contrast, had very obvious mental health issues. For example, being offended by the length of posts and feeling entitled enough to demand you change, as if scrolling past the posts you don’t like is too much work. Legit psycho stalker vibes. If these guys knew where I live, they’d be posting on twitter complaining about the color of my hot rods with pictures of me and my dates rolling out to the theater. Yes, I painted one purple (https://www.motortrend.com/features/vemp-0710-1980-chevrolet-corvette/), with silver trim, and you’re just gonna have to get over it. Internet schizos be following me around like I am Brad Pitt, reading every post, while simultaneously claiming they don’t like the posts. It’s like, pick a lane, sweetheart. If you didn’t like them, you wouldn’t read them. Now stop complaining and swallow your dose of reality with a large glass of water.
This sort of attitude is not unexpected if you understand the culture of SC2. People whine about barcodes or playstyles as if they are entitled to make other people change their in game username just because they don’t like it. It’s the European collectivist mindset, aka you need our permission to do something aka we act as a group. European collectivist governments “bubble up” from the culture of individual Europeans which is how you get collectivism like Communism & Natseeism. Reports are saying some countries in the EU are now requiring customers to provide proof for the use of funds to withdraw your own money from your own bank account. So basically you need the bank’s permission to withdraw money now. Why would they do that unless they plan to say no sometimes. It’s not your money, it’s “our money, comrade”.
Fun fact, Germany sent Lenin and other communist revolutionaries into Russia as agitators and it caused a civil war and the rise of Soviet Russia, the starvation of Ukraine, and the modern Ukraine war is downstream from all of this. European collectivism is one of the biggest blights of humanity, causing innumerable deaths, at least a hundred million, and incalculable harm to humanity. To this day, it blazes as strong as it did in times past. The united states found a solution to this through free speech, article II powers, and limited government. EU is going to start another world war like karens complaining about the colors of T shirts.
The way free speech solves this issue is because it provides protection to comedians and agitators who annoy the karens and take their egos down a peg to remind them they aren’t important. In EU they laud the karens and treat them like gods and put them in charge of the country and that’s how hitler happens. Can’t wait to watch WW3 be live streamed on youtube and laughing at all the karens REEEEing from the self fulfilling prophecy that they made happen through their own stupidity combined with a hyper intolerance of even minor things they dislike. You did this to yourselves. No, you won’t drag the US into your “karen wars” through NATO. We’re busy laughing, living, and colonizing mars with the trillion dollars USD we stopped spending to sooth your karen-worries.
The way Article II powers fix this issue is that the president is elected through his popularity with individual citizens and this makes him beholden to the people. He then has unique powers to wreck the warmongering class, the elite karens of society, and he’s motivated to do this because this republic-class of society tends to loot the average citizen of wealth & send their sons to die in wars. Average people obviously dislike this, so they elect a president who wrecks the karen class of society. Free speech then allows the average citizen the freedom to freely discuss who they want as president. This prevents the US from going full-hitler and starting WW3 over something stupid, like the colors of shirts, unlike the EU which refuses to embrace free speech. This prevented the US from staying too long in Vietnam, and it did the same thing to Ukraine. Now we sit back and wait to see if the EU, which doesn’t have these protections, goes all in on WW3 to “save” itself from the fictional threat of Russian aggression. It’s the Russian aggression that Russia does to save itself from the crazy Europeans and which wouldn’t happen if the EU would learn to just chill out and take a few jokes. They are too busy inventing ways to be offended and then finding ways to create enemies where none exist – it’s obvious they are their own worst enemies and the best thing you can do is isolate them and wait for them to implode as this minimizes the damage that they will do to the rest of the planet in the process. That’s why russia doesn’t want European influence in Ukraine, and who can blame them after Germany gift-wrapped Lenin and mailed him to Russia. The US should likewise isolate itself by leaving NATO.
Until EU embraces free speech, the US and other first-world countries should minimize their involvement with Europe. As long as individual Europeans think they are entitled to regulate the speech of others, whether it’s complaining about the lengths of posts or whatever, they need to be isolated. Free speech is absolutely required to stop the growth of collectivist ideologies like Natseeism and Communism.
Why exactly does free speech require the protection of offensive speech? Because the only type of speech that requires protection is offensive speech. Protecting non offensive speech is a contradictory idea because non offensive speech doesn’t need protection. Free speech protections are specifically for offensive ideas. Offensive ideas are useful because they interrupt and criticize and dismantle collectivism. Offensive ideas are the entire idea behind freedom of speech. There is no freedom of speech unless you can use it to offend the people in power and remind them that you don’t like what they are doing.
As long as free speech is protected, the people can elect an anti war president, and as long as we have an anti war president, we by definition can’t start WW3. That’s how it works. EU doesn’t have this. They lock up people over facebook posts and they have a weird intolerance of ideas – they think if you have different ideas, you are an “other” or an “enemy”. That’s how their brains work. This is anti-enlightenment. Aristotle said that it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain an idea without agreeing with it. Eu defines an idea they disagree with as an enemy. EU is regressing culturally back to Dark-Age-Mysticism, where only “pure” ideas are allowed, and the US should not stick around to be caught in the collateral damage. Study the historical trends and it’s obvious that everything from Hitler to Dark-Age Inquisitors were rooted in the psychology of being unable to tolerate “wrongness”. Since European culture continues to display these attributes, they are going to repeat the Dark-Age-Mysticism experiment again for the hundredth time. All I can say is good luck with that.
Slight modification to this statement. It’s not “wrongness” that they are intolerant of, it’s perceived wrongness, which is very different. They have an egocentric definition of right and wrong which aligns with their own preferences, so wrongness is simply defined as “perceived to be against my own personal preferences.” It’s an intolerance of different people who have different wants and needs, in other words. That’s why it breeds fascism for example. It is fundamentally an intolerance of others. The most basic way of tolerating others is to let them speak. If you don’t like what they have to say, it’s even more important to let them speak. If you only let those you agree with speak, then you are intolerant people who are different from you.
“But but allowing people I disagree with to exist and have the same rights as I do is a violation of MY rights!”. No it isn’t. You have freedom of association. Don’t go to the same places and do the same things as the people you dislike. Go somewhere else instead. Likewise, if you don’t like the lengths of a post, don’t read it. Block that person so you don’t see their posts anymore. Problem solved. It drives the eu karens mad that you are allowed to think and speak without their permission, and so they will never accept this solution.
People in data annotation write out thousands of words on a topic only for people to go to chatgpt to condense it. xD
TL:DR
The text discusses several points about AI, its potential dangers, and its current state. Here’s a summary:
Superintelligence and Data Poisoning: The author criticizes a report that applies the idea of mutually assured destruction (MAD) to AI, suggesting AI companies will sabotage each other’s data to prevent super-intelligence. The author argues this isn’t practical due to the direct data collection from user devices, which makes such sabotage difficult.
Doubts About Superintelligence: The author questions the possibility of achieving super-intelligent AI, citing the complexity of the human brain and current silicon chips’ limitations. They also doubt the assumption that super-intelligence would be inherently harmful, pointing out that AI lacks the autonomy to act without human input.
Human Brain and Intelligence Limits: The text suggests the human brain might already be near the limits of intelligence, driven by evolutionary pressures. The author argues that creativity and intelligence are products of intraspecies competition, not external threats.
AI’s Impact on Productivity: AI is seen as a tool to enhance human productivity, with the example of plumbers consulting AI for expert advice. The author believes AI will improve efficiency across industries by providing useful, real-time guidance.
Economic Impact and Feedback Mechanisms: AI will influence the economy by boosting productivity, and the success of AI systems will be determined by customer satisfaction rather than any potential for tyranny.
The Role of ARM Chips: ARM chips with low-cost GPUs could make AI clusters more accessible for small companies, potentially changing the dynamics of AI development. The author mentions the possibility of bot farms in gaming, where artificial player counts could be inflated.
In essence, the author believes the fears around AI super-intelligence are overblown and that AI will primarily enhance productivity and economic dynamics, especially for smaller companies.
I’ve said it before and I will say it again. It’s an indictment of the human race that they don’t have the brain power to hold complex ideas in their minds. The ideas must be condensed or it triggers what basically amounts to a buffer reset. Distilling an idea down to its core concepts is like reducing a Picasso down to a 4x4 pixel image. True, you have captured the essential colors & layouts of the image, but its utterly useless. Likewise, arguing that data-collection-sabotage is impractical is very reliant on specific and intricate knowledge of how these systems work, and without that contribution you’re just assuming your generalization is correct. You might as well be saying “rocket not fall because rocket go up!”. Yes, but why does the rocket go up.
It’s a disinterest in first order principles. You have to reduce a concept down to its first order principles, aka things in and of themselves aka things which are inherently true, or you’re just making assumptions and that means your argument is useless.
The disinterest in first order principles is rooted in a lack of understanding inductive and abductive reasoning. Most people can do deductive reasoning fairly well but their brain breaks as soon as you add probabilities and uncertainties to the equation. The reason for that is because you can think of deductive reasoning as chain reasoning. You can follow each chain in the link one at a time until you reach the end aka the conclusion. Inductive reasoning by contrast is tree-based reasoning. You have a complex tree of branched logic, and each branch has its own chain. It’s obvious why most people don’t like inductive reasoning. It’s way more complicated.
Any time you are talking about anything with any complexity or nuance, such as politics or mathematics, you are inherently grappling with uncertainty. It’s unavoidable. The only way you can minimize the impact is by systematically reducing a theory to first order principles (or as close as possible). That means every assumption has to be found and questioned until the only assumptions left are facially true, aka things like water is wet. In the case of data collection, there are a broad range of sources on the topic which show that data collection is harvested directly from user input via phones. It’s obviously true in and of itself. There have even been experiments done showing that ad models can adapt to what you are talking about, near your phone, in less than 30 seconds. That’s a first order principle. Data is harvested directly from users via their phones. Therefore, those who control the phones control the data harvesting. You would have to buy a million Samsung phones and enter in gibberish to corrupt this as a data point, which is impractical for a range of reasons least of which is the cost. We can therefore say with reasonable certainty that data-poising strategies are non viable.
How many politicans do you think read through the entirety of a bill before it’s put forward to vote on? I’d guess less than 5% and that’s only because it was the one they helped create. That’s probably by design so they can sneak in things.
I’m the same, need to be very interested in a topic before I’m reading 2,000 words. Chatgpt is a glorified spellchecker.
