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Joined March 2020
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Civilization turns 35 this month. 🎉 From 4000 BC to Civ VII: the entire series in two minutes. Pixel squares, Nuclear Gandhi, Baba Yetu, hexes, districts and three Ages. 35 years of "one more turn." Which Civ was your first? 👇
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Crazy light across Manhattan with a rainbow as the sun set ahead of an approaching nor'easter storm in New York City, Friday evening #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #sunset #noreaster #rainbow
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This is the first time in Earth’s history that the path is visible: cure cancer, slash traffic deaths, give anyone high agency no matter their body — and reach the stars — by scaling compute and energy. Don’t squander it.
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Karpathy gave Opus 5 the first paragraph of LOTR and asked for a three.js render. We pointed it at the 1991 Civilization intro instead. Here is what it came up with after 1 hour 15 minutes: ~5,400 lines of procedural code and zero assets. No models, no textures, no sound files - the terrain, the dinosaurs, the font and the score are all computed at runtime, then pushed through a real 320×200 VGA pipeline.
Andrej Karpathy
@karpathyAug 2
We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. "create an svg of pelican on a bicycle". As one idea to generalize it, I was interested what Opus 5 would do if I gave it the first paragraph of the Lord of the Rings, a 1M token budget (~$10) and asked for three js render of it. Opus went off for ~2 hours and wrote 5500 lines of code that (procedurally) rendered the story. It's kind of janky but fun. But it's a bit mindboggling that the LLM has to place and orchestrate various polygon assets in (x,y,z) coordinates and write code that animates it all, and that it even does anything at all. I also like this kind of examples because no one in their right mind would ever spend the time to write something this custom but LLMs have all the stamina and patience in the world, so it's an example where we go from "no one would ever do this" to "sure, why not, it's ~free". There might be a lot more. But I'm excited about creating hyper custom worlds that you can imagine dropping players into, e.g. here to participate in the LoTR story as a spectator NPC, or one of the characters, or etc. Something like an ephemeral GTA of X on demand. Last thought is that the domain of worlds/games exposes a weakness in LLMs: they can't easily audit their work because they aren't able to efficiently and natively perceive videos or play games within them. Here, Opus 5 had to very slowly and painstakingly take screenshots at different points, and it messed up a few times and created a bunch of jank. An example of raw capability (multimodal, gameplay) that I think is still quite lacking.
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Replying to @thedulab
Everyone lives in their own little world. The earlier a person realizes this, the better. Don’t overthink about what others think about you. Instead focus on doing the right thing yourself and ignore the noise.
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Replying to @bensrmn @dotta
Doesn’t this unnecessarily expose it to prompt injection risks? If your agent’s email address is known to others, malicious people could email to that address with prompt injection attacks. In my paperclip setup, I added OpenClaw as an agent, and this allows it to help me monitor the paperclip issues and create new issues for me as needed, it could also contact the CEO for me. This way only I can talk to paperclip.
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Swiss Alps, Switzerland.
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The coast of Algarve, Portugal.
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