noddybear

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by noddybear 4d ago
I know one of these researchers personally (Joe Benton) and he's not the self-promoting type. I believe his concerns are genuine.
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by noddybear 1mo ago
I don’t think the runs need to be aborted… you can just release a mid-training checkpoint!
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by noddybear 3mo ago
It’s an interesting contrast that you claim that the USA does not equate to its current political situation, whereas conversely the EU is ‘rotting’ from the inside. Do you think this is a balanced and reasonable claim?
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by noddybear 3mo ago
Maybe. I would contend that wealth accumulation over the long term is a function of the strength of local institutions e.g educational, judiciary etc. This is effectively the thesis of ‘Why nations fail’. Europes relative decline will only
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by noddybear 3mo ago
Right, the purpose of a system is what it does.
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by noddybear 3mo ago
Aren’t Unicode characters generally treated as 2 tokens to avoid a huge vocabulary?
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by noddybear 3mo ago
Nobody human considers a corporation to be a person. It is merely a legal expedient.
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by noddybear 4mo ago
He also believed in the immortal soul that survives after death, so he may have had a more literal meaning.
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by noddybear 4mo ago
Most of the functions that LLMs perform aren’t bijective, though. What prompt constructs the output ‘The answer is 3’ or ‘Yes that’s a great idea’?
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by noddybear 4mo ago
Thinking ‘God I wish these people would die’ could increase its propensity to kill all people, even if that propensity is still vanishingly small almost all of the time. A lot of people are walking around with crazy thoughts. Some of them h
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by noddybear 4mo ago
An EMP from a high altitude nuclear detonation would do the trick.
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by noddybear 10mo ago
Nah, its all pattern matching. This is how automated theorem provers like Isabelle are built, applying operations to lemmas/expressions to reach proofs.
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by noddybear 1y ago
I am really keen on plugging into Age of Empires 2 - although practically I think we need a couple of years of improvements before LLMs would be smart/fast enough to react to the game in realtime. Currently they can't react fast e
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by noddybear 1y ago
Thank you!
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by noddybear 1y ago
Biters are disabled, but cliffs are not
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by noddybear 1y ago
This is our earlier work. Since May we've made it really easy for the community to build their own agents to play the game: you can now hook up your terminal to get Claude Code to play the game.
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Show HN: FLE v0.3 – Claude Code Plays Factorio(jackhopkins.github.io)
75 points by noddybear 1y ago|17 comments
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by noddybear 1y ago
"Spem in Alium" is the most beautiful piece of music in existence for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT-ZAAi4UQQ At 40 distinct melodies, it is certainly the 'grandest' piece in early English church
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by noddybear 1y ago
The onus is on you to present evidence to justify your claim. Without actual data beyond anecdotes, your claim can and should be dismissed.
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by noddybear 1y ago
1. These are additions to our existing Factorio Learning Environment, which is an extensive agent environment for evaluating pre-trained LLM agents in an unbounded/open-ended setting in the game of Factorio. I don't agree that it
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Multi-Agent Coordination in Factorio: FLE v0.2.0(jackhopkins.github.io)
13 points by noddybear 1y ago|5 comments
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by noddybear 1y ago
Hey everyone, It's Mart, Neel and Jack from the Factorio Learning Environment team. Since our initial release, we have been working hard to expand the environment to support multi-agent scenarios, reasoning models and MCP for human-in-
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by noddybear 1y ago
Cool! Looks a lot like Tanuki: https://github.com/Tanuki/tanuki.py
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by noddybear 2y ago
This specific approach relied on: a) availability of multiplayer servers, and b) a remotely accessible console. I know Minecraft works in the same way - but I’m not sure about RPGs like NMS.
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by noddybear 2y ago
If I understand you correctly, this approach is sort of supported in FLE - the agents can create functions that encapsulate more complex logic. However, interaction is still synchronous/turn-based. I think to do what you propose, you w
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by noddybear 2y ago
The idea is for us to track all frontier models using the basic agent (goal, tooling info), and then offer another leaderboard for different agent architectures (with retrieval etc).
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by noddybear 2y ago
Oh super interesting! Create 10 scenarios containing working factories, and ‘drop out’ entities to break the factory in different ways. great idea.
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by noddybear 2y ago
There was a black mirror episode about this too, I seem to remember! Soldiers imagining they were fighting monsters - while actually committing war crimes.
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by noddybear 2y ago
This is true - there are simpler benchmarks that can saturate planning for these models. We were motivated to create a broader spectrum eval, to test multiple capabilities at once and remain viable into the future.
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by noddybear 2y ago
One of us works at Anthropic - but we had no insider access to any models or weights. All of our evals were on public models.

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