Cheating

   Cheating means circumventing or downright violating rules, usually while
   trying to keep such behavior secret. You can cheat on your partner, in
   [1]games, in [2]business and so forth, however despite cheating seeming
   like purely immoral behavior at first glance, it may be relatively
   harmless or even completely [3]moral, for instance in [4]computer graphics
   we occasionally "cheat" our sense of sight and fake certain visual
   phenomena which leads to efficient rendering [5]algorithms. In
   [6]capitalism cheating is demonized and people are brainwashed to partake
   in cheater witch hunts as part of [7]fear culture, arbitrary [8]drama in
   [9]fight for attention, trying to monopolize game platforms with [10]bloat
   monopoly "anti cheat" systems etc. These so called "anti cheat" systems
   introduce unimaginable [11]bloat and [12]bullshit and provide excuse for
   things like [13]spying (e.g. monitoring OS processes) and [14]proprietary
   technology (so that "cheaters can't study the system to trick it")
   creeping into the world of free software.

   The truth is that cheating is only an issue in a [15]shitty society that
   is driven by [16]competition (even if you disagree). Indeed, in such
   society there is a huge motivation for cheating (sometimes literally
   physical survival) as well as potentially disastrous consequences of it.
   Under the tyranny of capitalism we are led to worship [17]heroes and high
   achievers and everyone gets pissed when we get fooled. Corporations go "OH
   NOES our multi billion dollar entertainment industry is going to go
   bankrupt if consoomers get annoyed by cheaters! People are gonna lose
   their bullshit jobs! Someone is going to get money he doesn't deserve! Our
   customers may get butthurt!!!" (as if corporations themselves weren't
   basically just stealing money and raping people lol). So they start a huge
   brainwashing propaganda campaign, a cheater witch hunt. States do the
   same, communities do the same, everyone wants to stone cheaters to death
   but at the same time the society pressures all of us to compete to death
   with others or else we'll starve. We reward winners and torture the
   losers, then bash people who try to win -- and no, many times there is no
   other choice than to cheat, the top of any competition is littered with
   cheaters, most just don't get caught, so in about 99% of cases the only
   way to the top is to cheat and try to not get caught, just to have a shot
   at winning against others. It is proven time after time, legit looking
   people in the top leagues of sports, business, [18]science and other areas
   are constantly being revealed as cheaters, usually by pure accident (i.e.
   the number of actual cheater is MANY times higher). Take a look for
   instance at the [19]Trackmania cheating scandal in which after someone
   invented a replay analysis tool he revealed that a great number or top
   level players were just cheaters, including possibly the GOAT of
   Trackmania [20]Riolu (who just ragequit and never showed again lol). Of
   course famous cases like Neil Armstrong don't even have to be mentioned. {
   I just randomly found out that in the world of Pokemon tournaments
   cheating at top level also showed to be a huge issue lol. ~drummyfish }
   Cheater detection systems are (and always will be) imperfect and try to
   minimize [21]false positives, so only the cheaters who REPEATEDLY make
   MANY very OBVIOUS mistakes get caught, the smart cheaters stay and take
   the top places in the competitive system, just as surely as natural
   selection leads to the evolution of organisms that best adapt to the
   environment. Even if perfect cheat-detection systems existed, the problem
   would just shift from cheating to immoral unsportmanship, i.e. abuse of
   rules that's technically not cheating but effectively presents the same
   kind of problems. How to solve this enormously disgusting mess? We simply
   have to stop desperately holding to the system itself, we have to ditch
   it.

   In a good society, such as [22]LRS, cheating is not an issue at all,
   there's no incentive for it (people don't have to prove their worth by
   their skills, there are no money, people don't worship heroes, ...) and
   there are no negative consequences of cheating worse than someone
   [23]ragequitting an online game -- which really isn't an issue of cheating
   anyway but simply a consequence of unskilled player facing a skilled one
   (whether the pro's skill is natural or artificial doesn't play a role, the
   nub will ragequit anyway). In a good society cheating can become a mild
   annoyance at worst, and it can really be a positive thing, it can be
   [24]fun -- seeing for example a skilled pro face and potentially even beat
   a cheater is a very interesting thing. If someone wants to win by
   cheating, why not let him? Valid answers to this can only be given in the
   context of a shit society that creates cults of personality out of winners
   etc. In a good society choosing to cheat in a game is as if someone
   chooses to fly to the top of a mountain by helicopter rather than climbing
   it -- the choice is everyone's to make.

   The fact that cheating isn't after all such an issue is supported by the
   hilariously vastly different double standards applied e.g. by chess
   platforms in this matter, on one hand they state in their TOS they have
   absolutely 0% tolerance of any kind of cheating/assistance and will
   lifeban players for the slightest suspicion of cheating yelling "WE HAVE
   TO [25]FIGHT CHEATING", on the other hand they allow streamers literally
   cheat on a daily basis on live stream where everyone is seeing it, of
   course because streamers bring them money -- ALL top chess streamers
   (chessbrah, Nakamura, ...), including the world champion Magnus Carlsen
   himself, have videos of themselves getting advice on moves from the chat
   or even from high level players present during the stream, Magnus Carlsen
   is filmed taking over his friend's low rated account and winning a game
   which is the same as if the friend literally just used an engine to win
   the game, and Magnus is also filmed getting an advice from a top
   grandmaster on a critical move in a tournament that won him the game and
   granted him a FINANCIAL PRIZE. World chess champion is literally filmed
   winning money by cheating and no one cares because it was done as part of
   a highly lucrative stream "in a fun/friendly mood". Chessbrah streams
   ordinarily consist of many viewers in the room just giving advice on moves
   to the one who is currently playing, of course they censor all comments
   that try to bring up the fact that this is 100% cheating directly
   violating the platform's TOS. People literally have no brains, they only
   freak out about cheating when they're told to by the industry, when
   cheating is good for business people are told to shut up because it's okay
   and indeed they just shut up and keep consuming.

Links:
1. game.md
2. business.md
3. morality.md
4. graphics.md
5. algorithm.md
6. capitalism.md
7. fear_culture.md
8. drama.md
9. fight_culture.md
10. bloat_monopoly.md
11. bloat.md
12. bullshit.md
13. surveillance.md
14. proprietary.md
15. shit.md
16. competition.md
17. hero_culture.md
18. science.md
19. trackmania.md
20. riolu.md
21. false_positive.md
22. less_retarded_society.md
23. ragequit.md
24. fun.md
25. fight.md