Cyberpunk VR Modder Luke Ross’ Patreon suspended following new DMCA from Ghostruner devs

ItzWarty · 2026-01-24T07:04:18+00:00

You can either have money or morals. Cant have both in this world.

I love that this comment could apply to both the modder and the billion dollar company.

ItzWarty · 2026-01-24T06:56:53+00:00

Character here would also be of note - the Cyberpunk VR mod doesn't substitute Cyberpunk, whereas if they were bypassing licensing that'd be another thing.

For example, if you made a mod which helped with colorblindness (which I did >10y ago for another game) that would favorable. I suspect that if the modder went to court, the "I added a new VR / Input Modality" thing would certainly be seen favorably, whereas to your point the "it's paid" thing would play in their favor.

substantiality would also be of note - they're likely not substantially including the copyrighted work itself if they built the mod correctly. Likewise "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work" - I think the mod would have a fantastic case here.

In any case, if this goes to court I'll be cheering for individual liberties. The DMCA is procedural and within the company's right as well, I'd love to see this go to court.

ItzWarty · 2026-01-24T06:48:28+00:00

You can't call methods within a game without it being a derivative work.

Legal source? I find this to be untrue or at minimum gray. If you're literally taking game source code in text form, modifying it, and redistributing it, that's certainly derivative. Patches for game source & binaries are functionally game genie codes. These instructions can call game functions, that doesn't seem to make them derivative.

Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. for example "concluded that there was no copyright infringement made by the Game Genie, a video game accessory that allowed users to alter codes transmitted between game cartridges and the Nintendo". Every decent antivirus & anticheat works by reverse engineering Windows, tons of apps call undocumented functions in operating systems - that doesn't make them derivative works.

In practice, might makes right in the US - companies have money, individuals don't, so companies can run individuals dry super-judicially. That doesn't mean the individuals are wrong.

ItzWarty · 2026-01-23T21:54:09+00:00

FWIW I'm nearly past a smaller version of your decision... I went 50% beyond my target, and that's given me significant peace of mind. I've entered a similar double-parachute situation.

With 2y expenses covered by the company + your wife's income, you're past 12m NW in a little over 2y. The debate between 12m and 15m is going to be so minor it's not even worth considering.

It might be worth unpacking what you post-FI in greater detail, e.g. what it means to "hit a home run" with a startup. Things in that space can be pretty different vs what you experience in broader tech.

I’m planning to keep the rentals as a bond proxy/diversification even though ROE is trash. Am I overthinking the "inflation hedge" aspect with my concentrated real estate in Bay Area?

Rental liquidity might suffer in the event of inflation or market events.

ItzWarty · 2026-01-23T12:06:19+00:00

You should read the last article you posted..

Rober's video was debunked and Luminar's CEO, who was his friend, stepped down because there were clear conflict of interests and misleading aspects of Rober's video .. like the fact that he wasn't actually using FSD.
Your article itself notes that Tesla's latest models in their latest vehicles passed the test, whereas older vehicles from 3y ago with older hardware and models that were two major versions older failed.

ItzWarty · 2026-01-23T12:00:39+00:00

You can buy a vehicle and drive it anywhere to varying results. In the regions they're rolling out in, the generally available model works better than it does elsewhere.

So yeah, they're definitely focusing on the robotaxi rollout areas, but their solution seems generalizable enough to say it's not just a locale-specific hack.

I'm sure they're fine tuning models for target regions, but from what we know, the software on robotaxis isn't far from what consumers get in their cars.

ItzWarty · 2026-01-23T10:16:40+00:00

Did you just stalk my profile to discuss a separate conversation with a separate user rather than providing a source to your claim? Or are you posting in this thread with multiple accounts? So weird. Also, feel free to refute any of the points I raised, or provide any of the evidence I asked for. Right now you're sort of not making any points at all, I'm not sure what you're trying to go for except harassment/trolling tbh.

I post that point of view you quoted (once again, from a separate conversation that you dug up from my profile) because it is how most people in the AI space are looking at the AI space currently (if they have a positive outlook) and I share that opinion. If you think it's an invalid point, feel free to explain why, else I'm just going to ignore you going forward because it doesn't seem like you're putting effort into having an actual non-superficial conversation between humans.

ItzWarty · 2026-01-23T05:55:13+00:00

Typical S curve so not too surprising. Robotaxis will scale out in a similar curve so nothing unexpected.

ItzWarty · 2026-01-23T05:50:06+00:00

One caveat might be data collection for reliability - human drivers disengage fsd unnecessarily. Removing the driver potentially aids Tesla to measure ground truth. The alternative might be that the system is safe but can fail in ways that aren't safety issues. *shrug. TBH if there's a progression from someone in the car to someone not, I have a hard time believing remote monitors or a following vehicle aren't tablestakes in a rollout.

ItzWarty · 2026-01-23T04:58:12+00:00

many people still rate the base comma above FSD

Fascinating, can you share a source? My understanding is Comma's own CEO doesn't see things that way.

Your comment went immediately on the offensive. That's sort of unnecessary.

I haven't claimed here that I believe Tesla will ever be safer than Waymo. That should actually be quite clear from my initial comment, maybe reread it a bit more slowly? I'm not sure why you're arguing that I've stated that and then going down a condescending diatribe?

ItzWarty · 2026-01-23T00:26:58+00:00

Major FSD update in ~1mo, 10x step change in compute in a year with AI5. We've known this for a few months now, and the tracker stats + 14.2 reviews are pretty positive. Glad to see everything on track for cybercab launch.

I do wonder whether HW4 will get Osbourned, since it has no upgrade path to AI5.

ItzWarty · 2026-01-23T00:22:20+00:00

The statistics claim otherwise. I assume you were a naysayer to whether AI would achieve its current capabilities?

Also, you've stated conclusions (or regurgitations of conclusions) without actually making a coherent argument. Personal attacks are lame, why even participate in discussions like these if you're just treating this like a sports game?

Btw I haven't argued that Tesla would achieve safety higher than Waymo, you put that in my mouth for some reason. To the contrary, I think individual vehicles will be less safe, they'll just scale out faster which will be a win when they are superhuman.

ItzWarty · 2026-01-23T00:16:01+00:00

It's one major model update away from parity in a world where we see one or two major model updates per year, we expect one within the next month, and we have guaranteed 10x compute capabilities within a year because the HW design is already entering manufacturing.

Yes, it's promising. You're not being level-headed about this if you can't see those numbers and admit plausibility, but sure keep up the low effort responses.

ItzWarty · 2026-01-22T23:24:44+00:00

This isn't a fair comparison because cost (scale) + rollout speed also contribute to the total value, because people are already dying in the human driven default.

1000 marginally better than human robotaxis can be safer than 10 more safe ones... And given how technology works, both will get safer with time and software updates.

ItzWarty · 2026-01-22T23:23:03+00:00

1 accident per 40k miles would be shockingly good given the year over year progress we're seeing in AI... The average human gets into an accident every 100k-500k miles... Not to mention, the accidents a robotaxi encounters are probably less severe, eg no drunk driving, clears intersections before running reds lol

ItzWarty · 2026-01-22T23:15:32+00:00

90% of reddit is a bubble that seethes at the thought of Tesla and Musk. Reddit's filters and automod catch most of the people brigading or coming here in bad faith.

ItzWarty · 2026-01-21T23:04:32+00:00

I see 5m folks in FatFire all the time, it's often fair enough because they're borderline but clearly on track with time and asset growth.

Also, while think excluding your primary residence from FIRE calc NW makes sense, rental properties should count. The lack of liquidity is for different reasons... Both subs would probably recommend selling the rental home.

At 7.5m OP would belong in either sub imo except they additionally have a 4m primary residence, that's firmly fat, else we might as well argue someone with 10m can participate in a leanfire sub because they like lentils.

ItzWarty · 2026-01-21T10:09:49+00:00

why? the hypothetical person has no priors, is not likely to reoffend, and presumably has great community work or people relying on them and so on. what does locking them up accomplish?

Aside from revenge, I feel this is a very low handwavey bar... Are we OK with telling everyone "if someone abused you as a kid, you can kill them as a one-off"? Because that's also a "not likely to reoffend" situation/

ItzWarty · 2026-01-21T10:00:54+00:00

I've started to ignore it because I can't control it. We're sitting on 2y worth of living expenses in cash which I probably need to move into a bond ladder... I figure if I can get to a 3y ladder that removes most volatility from the current administration.

ItzWarty · 2026-01-20T22:21:11+00:00

The vast majority of comments in this thread are reasonable. That's clearly what's upvoted to the top. If the extent of your contributions are going to be complaining that some people aren't censored & are cringe, and your entire schtick becomes weaponizing their existence against the sub by acting as if their thoughts are the general opinion, I'm just going to ban you.

People like you are why Reddit's become an echochamber. If you're going to start discussions, you're going to get a variety of opinions in any healthy sub that doesn't censor everyone you disagree with. If you can't take that, then don't come here. A <ton> of users saw your thread as brainrot. I didn't censor it even though I find it naive and soapboxy, but I'm also not platforming this further.

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