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  • Sadly, that’s true

    Tried to refactor a spaghetti code state machine and thought, well, AI should handle this well. All the logic is there, just separate it into small functions to clean up the large one.

    None was able to, alone because of the context window already

    To be fair though, I tried Mistral online and it also stumbled around. ChatGPT was a complete clusterfuck - haven’t tried Claude.

    To be even fairer… it’s a really large state machine, which was written on site during a fever and in stress - so… To defend myself a bit as well, how it even came to that ;⁠-⁠)

    But seems, I’ll need to go through this myself
    Actually thought, that this would be a perfect example for using AI…




  • I’m not sure, if I understand the environment completely

    Those agents were the virtual incarnations of the AI in the sim city and the respective government - correct?
    And the AI needed to take care, that those agents didn’t died, like of hunger or what?
    That’s not really what those LLMs are trained for.

    Not sure, what they expected

    Currently searching the article for the original source, maybe this gives more insight

    Edit: ah, just in the first paragraphs it is
    https://www.emergence.ai/blog/emergence-world-a-laboratory-for-evaluating-long-horizon-agent-autonomy
    Completely missed it on the first read.
    Let’s see if this makes more sense…

    Edit 2: ok, if I get this right, those agents really were specific virtual individuals
    Not sure what they expected. First, LLMs are not really build to “live” as an individual as they aren’t real intelligence and can only role play individuals based on their training data.
    Second, why should they be super moral or “better”?
    Again, they just role play depending on their training data and built-in prompt bias (not sure what the prompt injection of the company is called)

    If you train an AI on governing such a world, it probably start gaming the system, depending on what values are important to “win”
    As we have already seen with machine learning in the last decade(s?)

    Funny experiment nevertheless, but not really useful in my eyes - and I’m everything but a defender of the current use of LLMs


  • I also believe, that he tries to normalise it.

    Like in many other corrupt countries, corruption isn’t that big of a deal.
    Pay a bit to get your documents faster? No problem.
    Pay to get out of a speeding ticket? No problem.

    But this needs to get normalised first, and I think he is doing exactly that.
    Give people with money even more power, so they’re even more above the law, than they’re now.

    Countries need years or decades to reverse established corruption systems.
    He is speed running the other direction.

    Edit: Just saw KindnessIsPunk making a very similar statement, but probably put it better, than I did
    https://sopuli.xyz/comment/23741774







  • If catched early enough, that could save some memories before they’re destroyed

    And as the long term effects, at least in mice, look promising, I’m kinda hopeful

    Was absolutely awful watching my grandmother decline - and because of that, my mother is horrifically afraid of getting dementia

    I hope this can translate from mice to humans fast and we can get something similar.

    Restoring destroyed neurons will probably never be possible…
    But at least we can stop the decline and new memories can be stored again, and with that a kinda normal life