I also want to know how much of this was replicated by independent, skeptical sources looking for alternative explanations. One thing I see in “science” reporti

I also want to know how much of this was replicated by independent, skeptical sources looking for alternative explanations. One thing I see in “science” reporting is that one or a few people make wild claims, it hits the news, and people believe their word on faith with no replication. There’s also many statements about what we know where the claims made should have citations, too. Yet, people who have never run experiments like that are nodding along saying, “Of course it’s true.” Or was all this replicated? What strengths and weaknesses did they hypothesize in these studies? What did they prove or disprove? What’s the next steps? And can we already implement any of those in simulators? (Note: I think agents poking and prodding the world can definitely be implemented in simulators. Even primitive, game engines should be able to model some of that.)