Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
It looks fun!
My inner grouch wanted to add:
There were a metric shit ton of hand-crafted, artisanal, exhaustive full-text walkthroughs for the OG Pokemon games even twenty years ago. Theyāre all part of the training corpus, so all you have to do to make this work is automate prompt generation based on current state and then capture the most likely key words in the LLMās outputs for conversion to game commands. Plus, a lot of āintelligenceā could be hiding in the invisible āglueā that ties the whole together, up to and including an Actual Individual.
Iād be shocked if this worked for a 2025 release
One more tidbit, I checked in and itās been stuck in Mt Moon first floor for 6 hours. Just out of curiosity, I asked an OAI model āwhat do I do if im stuck in mount moon 1Fā and it spit a step-by-step guide how to navigate the cave with the location of each exit and what to look for, so yeah, even without someone hardcoding hints in the model, just knowing the game state and querying whatās next suffices to get the next step to progress the game.
I had a similar disc with one of my friends! Anthropic is bragging that the model was not trained to play pokemon, but pokemon red has massive wikis for speed running that based on the reasoning traces are clearly in the training data. Like the model trace said it was ātraining a nidoran to level 12 b.c. at level 12 nidoran learns double kick which will help against brockās rock type pokemonā, so itās not going totally blind in the game. There was also a couple outputs when it got stuck for several hours where it started printing things like āBased on the hintā¦ā which seemed kind of sus. I wouldnāt be surprised if it there is some additional hand holding going on in the back based on the game state (i.e., go to oaks, get a starter, go north to viridian, etc.) that help guide the model. In fact, Iād be surprised if this wasnāt the case.