SabinStargem
@SabinStargem@lemmy.today
- Comment on AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. 2 days ago:
I never had such things in the first place. I was raised in the rural countryside, there wasn’t much in the way of neighbors beyond the odd boar or deer. When it takes over forty minutes by car to just visit school, there isn’t going to be whatever you consider to be a “human” life.
- Comment on AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. 3 days ago:
Dude. I didn’t say anything, nor even imply, about an automated message. Also, I previously contacted the author and received permission to distribute the game.
Seriously, folk like you suck - because you are hallucinating bullshit, and fling it at people.
- Comment on AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. 3 days ago:
I am talking about my personal experience with the technology. The intention is to inform people what the technology can and can’t do, and what was required. I want other people to see what I am doing, and say “I can do it too!”
I want other people to adopt AI and to pursue the things that they think is cool. Be it creating manga, having tabletop game companions, or recommendations for baking recipes, I want everyone to have a better life from collaborating with AI.
- Comment on AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. 3 days ago:
The goal is to establish a workflow of working with AI, the programs, the behaviors of the models, and so forth. In any case, I always sucked at math, so learning how to program just isn’t viable for me. My strong points lie elsewhere.
My goals are not yours. I want to use AI to translate videogames and other media, reimplement games with modern QOL, and eventually, to have media of my own imagination given form.
- Comment on AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. 3 days ago:
I have been trying to recompile a Windows v3.1 game. Once it has finished cooking, I will try to contact the OG game’s author for another freeware release of their work. While quite raw, you can see the bones starting to knit together.
My hardware is an 7965WX, 128gb DDR5 5600, x1 RTX 4090, and x2 RTX 3060. While powerful for a gaming machine, this is modest for AI workloads. I hope to eventually replace the weaker cards with a pair of RTX 4500, as that would afford me greater quality and speed.
This project has taken three days so far, and I am expecting another four to reach parity with the original article. If I had the hardware I wanted, I expect it would have only taken two days for parity to be achieved.
- Comment on Web crawler 1 week ago:
If there is a World Wide Web, you need an appropriately sized spider.
- Comment on Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. 1 week ago:
I put together a concept where everyone has to adhere to a banded range of job incomes with absolute limits on wealth and assets. Part of the idea is that leadership positions have the workers voting for their existence and who occupies them, every 3 months setting the pay rung that the bosses sit at. By default, leadership offers only the lowest income, so leaders have to convince their workers to vote for something better.
Same principle applied to public leadership, with voters instead of workers.
- Comment on Minimum Wage Must Cover Basics 2 weeks ago:
People who do personal work or have income from a product, has their income passed through the hands of the government. They, like the highest ranked profession, have a $100,000 income cap each year. The government extracts the taxes and takes any amount of money that is over the $100k limit, be the source from creative works, personal sales, or stock dividends.
As to seasonal workers, one idea is that government enforces a contract. The worker actually has two jobs - during the seasonal work, they do the job for one of two employers. Off season, they work for some other job sector, such as a warehouse. Employers for each respective season pay for the worker jointly. A seasonal employer is obligated to partner with an off-season employer before they can offer jobs. Failure of joint job offers, means that the government will prevent the two employers from hiring anyone. In turn, the government can drop the hammer if the employers are hiring people and making money off the books. In the event that a seasonal worker is prevented from doing their second job, the government pays for an income that is equal to the worker’s first seasonal job if it was full time. This gives the government more incentive to keep employers on the level.
The implication here, is that government controls hiring practices. Abuse like ghost jobs exist, because employers dictate the terms of the proverbial battlefield. Employers in our current society create tests, scheduling requirements, enforce non-DEI policies, do nepotism, and so forth. I think that government should be the clearinghouse for employer, containing the resumes of employee and determining whether the employer is offering jobs in good faith. Positions for jobs are publicly posted, and workers can send a universal resume to the government that can be used for any position. If there are missing details, the worker can have their resume expanded and clarified, replacing their old resume.
- Comment on Minimum Wage Must Cover Basics 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I think the key is to create an income bottleneck: Each type of job falls into a rank, each rank giving a fixed income each year. Rank of a job type is determined by the effort, risk, and knowledge required. So a migrant working the fields, gets higher pay than a waiter, because that involves effort and possible damage from being out in bad conditions. There are only 7 or so job ranks. By limiting incomes, we also fight inflation, because sellers have to work within predictable income bands.
Rank 0 is UBI of $10,000 for citizens, which is replaced by job income if a citizen gets a standard job - but schooling grades adds to their pool. Jobs give more money than UBI. Students are payed $2,000 to $10,000, depending on their grades. Waiters and other basic roles get $20,000. $20,000 for managers, cops, and the like. $40,000 for produce pickers, delivery drivers, and soldiers in safe conditions. $60,000 for regular teachers, doctors, and researchers. $80k for fire fighters, ambulance drivers, and so forth. $100k for surgeons, university-grade researchers, and astronauts.
Workers vote for their leaders within their unit and for leaders above their unit. They determine who gets to lead, and sets their pay rank every 3 months. This makes it harder for leaders to get entrenched and abuse workers.
I have more thoughts on this sort of thing, but the key thing is to seriously limit the power and authority of individuals: Limit total incomes each year to a hard cap, absolute limits on wealth and assets, guarantee universal services that allows people to quit and avoid bad jobs without risking their wellbeing. Free universal healthcare, basic food, generic goods, and basic shelter with internet, all of these freely given without means testing. Migrants also get universal services. The government gets the bulk of taxes from companies, and assigns a rotation of book-keepers from the state and federal government to ensure that companies aren’t lying.
The free stuff provided by the government also grease the wheels of genuine capitalism - paid goods and services have to be better than the universal items, else they won’t sell. That helps against inflation, since the government is basically setting the base price of things.
- Comment on Minimum Wage Must Cover Basics 2 weeks ago:
I think minimum wage isn’t sufficient. Inflation will keep striking, employers will continue wage theft and abuse, billionaires will keep engineering laws that benefit them at the expense of all others.
Replacing the entire economic system outright is the true minimum. At best, minimum wage alone is just a tiny bandaid covering a spurting stump. To save society, abandoning capitalist tradition is key.
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 2 weeks ago:
Pain.
The Hamburger Helper brand sucks. Buy the store brand version. I personally enjoy the “Lasgana Skillet Meal”. Has more flavor than HH, and a bit cheaper too.
- Comment on Broomsticks? What is this? The Dark Ages? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
On the moon, I am guessing some sort of railgun facility. Designate a specific spot on Earth, and you can launch mineral packets to crash there for terrestrial harvesting. Mind, I can see horrific consequences if something goes wrong.
In an old game called Stars!, I used to prepare worlds via mineral deposits to serve as industrial centers. The process also conveniently cleared out the previous inhabitants.
- Comment on The White House removed a MAGA-themed game called Build the Wall from its website after the Tetris Company issues a statement online alluding to copyright infringement 5 weeks ago:
I could envision some games. Say, a “Theme Polling” game, where you have to build and manage polling sites, giving people enough water, processing ballots, staffing, and so forth. A “Mail, Please” game, where we handle the mail and send it to the right places on time.
Maybe license Factorio or hire the devs, so that kids can get an idea of what goes into supply chains.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 month ago:
Today’s American elite have considerably greater wealth gaps than what I described for the system. There is roughly a 400% to 1,100% difference between a minimum wage worker and an executive, before considering things like stocks and options.
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Since there are absolute wealth caps and the rule is that only one income stream can be active, there is essentially a soft limit on accumulating benefits. People who earn enough benefits from work, are likely to retire or go on vacation - which leaves a vacuum for other people to fill up, who in turn earn enough benefits to move on, and repeat. The people with stockpiled benefits also create opportunities for new businesses to crop up, since they would need things to keep them busy - an ambition, touring to see the land, activities, and so forth. This creates jobs due to demand, thus creating new upper ranks that need to be filled.
Students earn money from learning, which means they can comfortably obtain the qualifications to obtain better paying ranks. Thus, there are many people who can enter the upper ranks. Due to universal services, people can wait for jobs without danger - and people who work, can leave jobs if the work conditions suck. So there is a lot more mobility for income seekers.
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While I very much doubt that the proposed Universal Living system to be an panacea, the important thing is to enact something considerably better than what we currently have. Perfection isn’t the goal, since that requires a lot more understanding of economics than humanity has learned up to this point.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 month ago:
Unfortunately, there is an issue with making teachers the highest paying job: the sheer number of them needed. The system would probably break under that. 😕
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 month ago:
I have a slide deck that includes taxes and whatnot. They are divided into two pieces for individuals: “Social” and “Cultural” tax. The Social Tax pays for roads and other communal goods, with taxpayers being able to use an app or website to assign what projects the money goes towards: Potholes for a certain street, playgrounds, ect. The cultural tax is a form of crowdfunding, where the taxpayer can assign the tax towards projects that promote culture - festivals, games in development, TV shows, ect. Failure of the taxpayer to earmark their taxes, has the government using them as a discretionary fund.
The way I figure, this encourages individuals to think about their society, and gives them a pool of money that they can’t spend on themselves. The government gets the bulk of its discretionary taxes from the regulation of companies.
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The system I outlined, already forces people to not hoard money: The absolute caps on wealth and assets makes them inclined to spend their money, else it would overflow, and that excess collected by the government. We want people to have enough money to have a big buffer for major expenses, while also encouraging regular spending.
Plus, universal services and free generic goods encourages the spending of money. People will focus their funds towards what they want, and be economical in the spots they don’t care about. This is a bit different from what we have today, because people are obligated to pay for their food, utilities, goods, services, and so on. By offering free but boring options, society allows people to focus their investments on the things that interest them.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 month ago:
For my argument, assume that the American Dollar has utterly failed, and a new currency is invented. The numbers make much more sense in an engineered economy, rather than one that has inherited technical debt from millennia of worker-employer relations.
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I think the way forward is to rework income to be a floor and ceiling, with jobs being assigned ranks. By doing this, we can limit the maximum amount of money that people can make - and in turn, the economy will ‘rubberband’, according to what income brackets that goods and services are priced for.
A national review board sets what rank a job class falls into. East coast, west coast, Hawaii, all the same exact pay annually. Workers don’t negotiate for higher pay with their employers, and the employers can’t set standards or expectations for what they pay. This prevents employers from abusing people through ‘circumstances’, or using promotions as a stick, and so on.
Ranks are based on the effort, risk, and knowledge that a role entails. The national board uses research to determine what a job type requires asks of people.
Below is an example of what I would like rankings to be.
- Rank 0 - Citizens get a UBI of $10,000 annually. This is replaced by other ranks when working.
- Rank S - Students receive $10,000 to $20,000 according to grades. All levels of education pay money.
- Rank 1 - Waiters and cashiers, receive $20,000 annually.
- Rank 2 - Managers, sex workers, caretakers, game developers, journalists. $40k.
- Rank 3 - $60k. Delivery drivers, nurse, soldiers outside of warzones, teachers, crop pickers.
- Rank 4 - $80k. Scientists, Doctors, engineers, warzone soldiers (disabled veterans get a better UBI).
- Rank 5 - Astronauts, lumberjacks, firefighters, surgeons, advanced researchers, get $100,000 annually.
Leadership positions give Rank 2 during the first three months after being voted into place, but workers below the leader vote for pay rank, and may also elect to remove the leadership position or to replace the person there. So worker satisfaction is tied to whether or not a leader gets a decent income.
On top of that, everybody should get a fixed amount of hours they may work each day. If they work even just an hour, they still get a full day’s pay. Each worker is capped at 9 hours a day, and can only do 5 days of work a week. 45 hours total each week.
People earn a 1:1 ratio of retirement benefits based on hours worked for a given rank. So someone who worked a full year at Rank 1 has $20,000 in benefits paid by the workplace. These benefits are only in effect when going on paid vacation, sick leave, fired, or in retirement. A business that goes under or is bought, has its obligations passed to government or to the new owner. Citizenship UBI is replaced by benefit income ranks, starting with the best payout rank.
Companies that use AI to displace workers, have to pay into a government fund. This fund is used to give ranked UBI to citizens, paying them for a job they can no longer obtain. A company’s limit on wealth and assets is based on employee headcount or the amount of citizen UBI it is paying for, anything beyond the limit is 100% confiscated by government, with penalties if the excess is found to be deliberate. Local and federal government split the confiscation 50-50.
Individual people have limits on liquid wealth and assets. Non-citizens have $50,000 caps on each pool, and a citizen a $100,000 cap for each. Any amount of wealth beyond these limits are confiscated by the government. This helps prevent the development of millionaires and billionaires.
Hypothetically, the ‘banding’ of incomes like this would also prevent or mitigate inflation, because wealth distortions and labor manipulation would be curtailed. By making incomes predictable, the markets can price goods accordingly.
- Comment on 2027 gonna be like... 1 month ago:
I just know that RFK Jr hungers for Jimothy…poor little fellow would be RFK’s white whale. 😥
- Comment on 2027 gonna be like... 1 month ago:
“The remnants of our armies have finally caught Mr. Bezos and Elon, and they are here tonight to fight for their lives!..get ready to throw your shivs into the arena, elders and children! Our people died for this wonderful day to happen!”
…That is the GOOD ending to 2028. 🤨
- Comment on 2027 gonna be like... 1 month ago:
In 2027, a roll of toilet paper is worth 100 cheeseburgers. Be sure to use your lucre to buy a bidet.
…actually, I should stockpile some TP. Canada ain’t gonna supply us anymore. Off to CostCo I go…
- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 1 month ago:
Do European leaders keep their authority if they go MIA for months on end?
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 1 month ago:
I would argue that pure capitalism produces a toxic profit - one that doesn’t help humanity, be it the short or long term. Kings of centuries past may have been wealthy compared to their peasants, but the ordinary people of today have many more options for finding joy in life.
Our billionaires are preventing us from developing a society that would enrich every single person - including themselves.
- Comment on Capitalism is an unrealistic death cult. 1 month ago:
What probably lead to the ultimate destruction of the neanderthals was a lack of calories. They are like a SUV: Big, and powerful, but takes a lot of energy to keep going. Odds are that they are just as smart as us, but the human brain is very expensive. Combine that with an ice age, and an economical competitor, it is pretty likely for the more efficient critter to become numerous.
Also, their raw power might have disincentivized the adoption of technology. They were just better than us at surviving trauma and in athletics, so things like bows, spears, and so forth, likely weren’t a big priority. Why bother with fancy sticks, when you can walk up to a giant sloth and cave in its brain with a heavy log?
- Comment on Capitalism is an unrealistic death cult. 1 month ago:
Viruses eventually evolve to be less deadly to their host. It just takes many failed viruses to get there. In that context, the collapse of the US and the rise of the EU, and China, just means that we are seeing one breed dying out.
I think that humanity will do fine, it is just that some societies will not be around in the centuries to come.
- Comment on Capitalism is an unrealistic death cult. 1 month ago:
The five oldest professions will be forever: Farmers, soldiers, kings, courtesans, and accountants. The first three rely on the bean counters to make sure that everything is where it belongs.
You have job security.
- Comment on Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism 1 month ago:
I am feeling pissed, and Mamdani is matching my feelings here.
- Comment on Games with singleplayer campaigns that let me fight/kill nazis? 2 months ago:
The OG DOOM, and the Brutal DOOM campaign has reworked secret levels with tanks and the like.
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 2 months ago:
Probably something like “Omnicide”, the way things are going.
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 2 months ago:
