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AGI Simulator
- coldcache 3y agoSimilar: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ (discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24389655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24389655)
- karmakaze 3y agoI definitely got a Universal Paperclips vibe from it (with illegible color choices).
- jstanley 3y agoIt seems like AI Knowledge Production and AI Wealth Production are permanently stuck at 0 since they start at 0 and the only modifiers are +X%. Maybe I'm wrong and I just wasted the +X% modifiers by spending them too early?
- rohan_ 3y agoIt's very unclear what the book emoji is and how to improve it's rate of increase.
- rhinoceraptor 3y agoIt's the AI Wealth statistic.
- etskinner 3y agoIt's the total accumulated knowledge, I think.
- motoboi 3y agohuman knowledge
- tiborsaas 3y agoWhoever made this, please add a "cursor: pointer" to clickable elements pretty please.
- moffkalast 3y agoAnd give them a button border ffs.
- tiborsaas 3y agoCrazy idea: use <button> :)
- dmm 3y agoand maybe "user-select: none"? Also the "Buy Cloud Service" clickable makes the left column shift in size.
- lostmsu 3y agoI mean the UX is terrible. If they used Win95-style controls it would be much more playable.
- 7373737373 3y agoIs there a programmatic way to optimize speedruns for this kind of games? The number of steps/the size of the search space seems too large to apply a MILP solver to it
- qwerty3344 3y agomonte carlo or some kind of ant colony simulation probably
- Leary 3y agoStarted by maxing AI. Got hit by the virus. Maxed alignment after that. Now in 2066 and waiting for BrainLink
- avereveard 3y agoIf you haven't yet also have a look at the old singularity endgame game: https://libregamewiki.org/Endgame:_Singularity https://libregamewiki.org/Endgame:_Singularity it's a bit old and the android port doesn't work anymore, but it's pygame and shouldn't be a problem for the hn crowd to get it going.
- paradite 3y agoTangentially related: I make "AI Simulator" games, where you use AI to run simulations of games automatically. https://ai-simulator.com/ https://ai-simulator.com/
- dreadlordbone 3y agoI got the "Universal Jump Engine" and the game reset.
- littlestymaar 3y agoStrong The last question[1] vibe here. [1] http://www.thelastquestion.net/ http://www.thelastquestion.net/
- kmeisthax 3y agoMy first run: I deliberately buy every option that hurts alignment with the goal of killing humanity. Eventually I run out of alignment-harming stuff to buy, and everything else helps so much that around 2080 I have a human population of 14 million. Second run ('cause I clicked the universal jump engine by accident): I deliberately hold off on AI upgrades unless I can keep alignment high. At 2080, AI is out-earning humanity but very stupid and humanity is only at 586 million. (Also, why does the population start off so low? Do you know something that I don't?) EDIT: I bought all the alignment upgrades on the second run. I don't entirely understand how threatening to nuke countries that research AI improves alignment when I'm already running GPT-5 on millions of GPUs
- jepler 3y agoThe initial population is "the US", not "the world". yeah a warning about 'universal jump engine' would be good.
- admaiora 3y agoI had no idea what it is but kinda ruined the mood for me when the game reset
- tl 3y agoTried systematically buying every alignment minus. Getting all of them yields "Nanobot light sphere consumes earth" which sets human population to zero. You must have accidentally bought an alignment bonus.
- kmeisthax 3y agoTried a second time and yes I have successfully eaten humanity. Colonizing Mars didn't save anyone. Oddly enough I can still buy alignment upgrades (to WHAT?!) and GPUs (from WHOM!?). And the penalty for being eaten by nanobots is not -100% humans, it's -1B humans. So presumably if you overpopulate before you misalign you can survive the nanobots.
- scrumper 3y agoWhat is "AI Wealth" here, where's it measured? Human wealth I get, it's the money stat. Human knowledge is the book. AI IQ is self explanatory. Population, GPUs, same. So which one is AI wealth? I enjoyed the Paperclip thing, this is similar.
- mkaic 3y agoThere's only one wealth and one knowledge coffer. Both AI and humanity have their own wealth and knowledge production rates linked to the number of GPUs/IQ and population, respectively.
- scrumper 3y agoAh thanks. Got it.
- littlestymaar 3y agoI don't think there's AI knowledge production actually, or at least that's why I assumed since we don't have a way to improve it with research unlike everything else.
- motoboi 3y agoJust buy gpus, don't mind waiting for big batches, just buy everything you can.
- marcosdumay 3y agoIf the author is around here, the game has system dark mode detection, but the dark theme is broken.
- shmapf 3y agoI don't understand why it resets at universal jump engine. Is that the end of the game, or is there some way to end up in a different state? I got to the point where that was the only option left.
- sneeze-slayer 3y agoUniversal jump engine with one destination: 2022