Claude has trouble playing Pokemon partially because it can’t see the screen very well. This made me wonder if Claude would be better at an ASCII game like Dwarf Fortress, where it doesn’t need to rely on image recognition.
To check this, I built an MCP server to let Claude control an interactive terminal, and installed a text version of Dwarf Fortress.
There’s a semi-common meme on Twitter where people share their most X opinion, where X is a group the poster doesn’t identify with; or sometimes my least X opinion, where X is a group they do identify with. In that spirit, my least libertarian opinion is that exclusivity deals with sufficiently entrenched companies* are bad and should be illegal.
AI training data comes from humans, not AIs, so every piece of training data for “What would an AI say to X?” is from a human pretending to be an AI. The training data does not contain AIs describing their inner experiences or thought processes. Even synthetic training data only contains AIs predicting what a human pretending to be an AI would say. AIs are trained to predict the training data, not to learn unrelated abilities, so we should expect an AI asked to predict the thoughts of an AI to describe the thoughts of a human pretending to be an AI.
As incomes have risen, it’s important for Americans to find new ways to spend ever-increasing amounts of money. I propose that we spend some of it traveling to pick and eat fresh fruit that doesn’t travel well.
Content Warning: Knowing how delicious fresh fruit can be is an infohazard for your wallet.
Current LLMs almost always process groups of characters, called tokens, instead of processing individual characters. They do this for performance reasons: Grouping 4 characters (on average) into a token reduces your effective context length by 4x.
