But a good way of solving this in community managed multiplayer games is this: if a player is extremely good to the point where it’s destroying the fun of every other player: just kick them out.
Unfair if they weren’t cheating? Sure. But they can go play against better players elsewhere. Dominating 63 other players and ruining their day isn’t a right. You don’t need to prove beyond reasonable doubt they’re cheating if you treat this as community moderation.
Why do you feel someone has a right to play anywhere?
If a community manages a server, it’s basically private property. And community managed servers are always superior to official publisher-managed servers. Anticheat - or just crowd management - is done hands on in the server rather than automated, async, centralized.
Buying the game might mean you have a ”right” to play it, but not on my server you don’t.
It's like if Nikola Jokic showed up to your local court every day and consistent beat you day after day. You'd eventually give up because it's not fun anymore.
People who engage in competitive sports all agree to it. Most people want to play for fun. They have a natural right to do so.
”Your game”? It’s a publisher making a game. If I’m kicking someone off my server I’m not asking EA/Ubisoft etc.
I’m talking about normal old fashioned server administration now, I.e people hosting/renting their game infra and doing the administration: making rules, enforcing the rules by kicking and banning, charging fees either for vip status meaning no queuing etc, or even to play at all.
That’s what I want as a gamer. I want a PC that works as a console. Whether I want that for other use cases or this
machine doesn’t matter. I’m happy to sandbox _everything else_, boot into a specific OS to game etc.
The thing about gaming is that it’s not acceptable to leave 5% performance on the table whereas for other uses it usually is.
_most_ games now do KBM on console and matchmake separately for it. It's still not perfect, but it's gotten much better.
> And I do want a high end PC for other use cases.,
Right, you don't want two devices (that's fair). How can you _possibly_ trust the locked down device won't interfere with the other open software it's installed side by side with?
Just know that it will still get cracked and cheats will exist. I suspect this is Microsoft's next "console" as they have been developing "anti-cheat" for quite some time.
I don’t think a sandbox like a VM would work even if it could be done with only 5% perf hit? Wouldnt any game run in a VM be possible to introspect from the hypervisor in a way that is hard to see from inside the VM? And that’s why these anticheats disallow virtualization?
That would mean those who are concerned about the integrity would want to sandbox everything else instead.
And even if people are ok with giving up a small bit of perf when gaming, I’m sure they’re even more happy to give up perf when doing online banking.
Or we just boot into some console-esque gaming OS or mode to game. I’m not sure why this would be so controversial. The alternative is the one we see here.
Doesn't it just limit property tax to 1% while saying nothing about income tax?
Is it this?
> the aggregate of all tax levies upon real and personal property by the state and all taxing districts now existing or hereafter created, shall not in any year exceed one percent of the true and fair value of such property in money
Asking an AI (I know, I know) it suggests "Courts have ruled that income is property" which to me sounds like ruling up is down. I mean everywhere that has property tax separate from income tax or only one or the other would object...
There was initiative 2111 which seems it wouldn't even be necessary if income tax was against the constitution to begin with? Also I assume this law basically nullifies initiative 2111?
Washington's constitution says: "The word 'property' as used herein shall mean and include everything, whether tangible or intangible, subject to ownership". That is extremely broad, and there is 90 years of precedent affirming income is include here as something intangible and "subject to ownership."
So if one has income tax and property tax separate (which I guess happens now) then presumably one has also codified that income is _not_ property (which I guess is the more common state of affairs )?
Seems like this would be something for a Supreme Court to try. It was ordinary laws and cases (presumably) that had established the norms of equating income with property.
> The legislature refused to add an amendment forbidding the threshold from ever being lowered
Wouldn't such a change have to be made by the same legislature with a similar majority? Or was this some sort of constitutional change that required a more qualified majority, after which the threshold can be changed more easily than this could be introduced?
The WA constitution doesn't seem to have anything to say on income tax, just a lot about property tax?
> Wouldn't such a change have to be made by the same legislature with a similar majority?
Yes. The legislature voted on the additional language and it did not pass.
> The WA constitution doesn't seem to have anything to say on income tax, just a lot about property tax?
Washington state treats income as property, and property taxes must be uniform and flat within a specific property class.
Technically, this law does run afoul of that because having an exemption makes it not uniform, and per the state constitution property tax is capped at a total aggregate levy of 1% per year.
The state will use the argument that this is not a property tax, but an excise tax on the privilege of earning high income from the state's economy. They used a similar argument for the capital gains tax, and won in the WA supreme court.
To modify the state constitution, you need 2/3 vote in both the house and the senate, and it also must be approved by a simple majority of voters in the next general election.
Since republicans are always unified against an income tax, dems only hold a 30-19 majority in the senate, and a 59-39 majority in the house, missing 3 and 7 votes respectively.
The plan for this tax is basically to have it challenged on purpose and leave it up to the state supreme court to re-interpret the constitution, and consider this an excise tax, which is the same way they were able to pass the state's capital gains tax.
Why not just charge it on the paying end (payroll tax)? It would be the same thing but charged from employers.
E.g my Employer pays about 125 to pay me 100 because of payroll tax. Then I receive 70 because the employer also pays my tax directly. My income was only 100 and the total tax was 55.
Washington already has payroll taxes and revenue(!) taxes, which have been increasing. It was causing employers to leave. The State had to limit ambitions on several of these taxes because it was causing businesses to move to other States.
For highly paid tech employees, the total tax burden across employer and employee in Washington has become one of the highest in the US. Even if the employee doesn’t see all of that, the employer definitely does. Washington already has de facto income taxes by proxy and this is on top of that.
Maybe if we had a really terse and unambiguous form of English? Whenever there is ambiguity we insert parentheses and operators to really make it clear what we mean. We can enclose different sentences in brackets to make sure that the scope of a logical condition and so on. Oh wait
This seems it should be very easy to validate. Force the AI to make minimal changes to the code under test, which makes a single (or as few as possible) test fail as a result. If it can't make a test fail at all, it should be useless.
Agreed, and that's why I think adding some example prompts and ideas to the Testing section would be helpful. A vanilla-prompted LLM, in my experience, is very unreliable at adding tests that fail when the changes are reverted.
Many times I've observed that the tests added by the model simply pass as part of the changes, but still pass even when those changes are no longer applied.
This is essentially dual to the idea behind mutation testing, and should be trivial to do with a mutation testing framework in place (track whether a given test catches mutants, or more sophisticated: whether it catches the exact same mutants as some other test).
I meant when they each work on a separate branch and merge back, you get
the similar kinds of conflicts, where a bunch of them should not even be a conflict, so weave is trying to solve it.
There's no fundamental difference, but in practice the difference is one of frequency.
E.g. I sometimes have 10+ agents kicking off changes to the same small project at the same time, and likely to all want to merge within the next 15-30 minutes. At that rate, merge conflicts happens very frequently. The agents can mostly resolve them themselves, but it wastes tokens, and time.
> in most places in public you should have zero expectation of privacy (in the US)
Shouldn't there be a discussion about what that means? What _is_ privacy? Is it completely black or white, all or nothing? Are some kinds of privacy breaches more acceptable than others?
I feel that the "you can have no expectation of privacy in public" discussion is some times used as if it's some sort of fundamental truth that must not be challenged. If people _want_ to have more privacy in public, whatever that means, then let's make it happen.
Wear a burqa if you want total privacy while in public. Or prosthetics, I guess. I've seen people wearing full-face reflective shields in public - but that was mostly as a sun-shield to protect their ever-shriveling faces. The only thing stopping you from having real privacy while in public is social norms.
Other than that I don't see a way to remain "private" while in "public" with the current laws that we have, and I kind of like the laws that we have.
These are the same laws that let us record law enforcement, which is especially useful when they abuse their power - something that happens far to often. If the laws around recording in public were altered, then we likely also lose that right, and then law enforcement becomes even more dangerous to the citizens.
This isn't about recording. Recording was always ok. I could always record you in public. You could be part of my personal video collection, or I could use the clip of you in journalism.
But if I record you and use it in a TV commercial, that's different. The recording isn't the problem, it's what's done to the recording.
Now I'd ask: is sending the video of you to a Meta server so they can recognize your face at a specific store and location and influence which ads your mom see on Facebook more like a) journalism and personal use or which is acceptable b) the case where I recorded you and used your face in the TV commercial, which isn't acceptable?
>But if I record you and use it in a TV commercial, that's different. The recording isn't the problem, it's what's done to the recording.
You're moving goalposts. Of course using video of someone in a TV commercial requires consent. I never disputed any of that.
>is sending the video of you to a Meta server so they can recognize your face at a specific store and location and influence which ads your mom see on Facebook more like a) journalism and personal use or which is acceptable b) the case where I recorded you and used your face in the TV commercial, which isn't acceptable?
It's more like A. It isn't like B at all. But I purposely refuse to let friends take photos of me, and opt-out of group photos, because I know those photos end up on Facebook, where Facebook can do whatever they want with it short of using my likeness in an ad - at least that should be how it works, but Facebook doesn't really give a fuck about anything or anyone, so YMMV. Actual advertising companies and media companies will not use a likeness without consent, and I see plenty of faces blurred out in some "reality" shows where they did not get consent from specific people.
I can take a photo of you in public, and I can do lots of things with that photo. But if I want to sell something based on your photo, then I need to ask your permission.
Do you understand now?
This has happened to me before - someone took a photo of me and used it in an ad, and someone I know saw the ad and sent it to me... so I asked the company to stop using my photo to advertise their product, and they complied. Yes, they should have asked to use the photo first, but they likely found the photo someone else took who posted on the internet and someone at the company loved it so much (it was a great, unique photo) and wanted to use it in a fun way to promote their product. No, they should not have done that, but I get why they wanted to. Maybe they thought that sometimes it's better to ask for forgiveness than consent? I don't know, I don't care, but it wasn't that big a deal.
Also, FWIW, I just installed a new app called "Nearby Glasses" that scans for known bluetooth signatures of these recording glasses, and alerts when someone with these glasses is recording nearby.
> But if I want to sell something based on your photo, then I need to ask your permission. Do you understand now?
I understand, and I disagree. I think if you send video to Meta who uses it to make money (and likely offer you free services in return) then that's a commercial use of the recording. Whether it's similar to a tv-ad or not can be debated, but it's definitely recording and using it commercially.
So here's my opinion very simply: People should be required to ask for permission before sending recordings to endpoints where they even have a _risk_ of being used commercially (For example, training a LLM at Apple, or be used to improve self-driving cars at Tesla or whatever) then it should be the same as for using the recording in an a ad. Full explicit consent needed from everyone recognizable in the recording with their voice or likeness.
And I think we need to redefine privacy as something that isn't black or white. In a bathroom or in my home I expect complete privacy. In the street I expect _less privacy_ but it doesn't mean I have "no expectation of privacy".
If my biometrics or a recording of my voice is sent to a different continent and then used to change which ad shows on the phone of the person next to me on the subway, then that's less privacy than I expected and wanted.
1) develop good systems for completely anonymous age verification.
2) now, potentially, use this in the places you think need age verification.
Why are people accepting 2 before 1?
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