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urav
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Comment #47245719
heads up — someone has launched a crypto token using the Werld name and repo. I DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT. Werld is an open source project, that's it. Don't buy anything.
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Comment #47205755
thing you've caught onto something there, after running it for a while (maybe not long enough) it can feel cyclical. I'll definitely add in the time-lapse, and some sort of a patte…
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Comment #47198927
Agreed — and I wouldn't want to simulate the human experience. What I'm more curious about is what experience agents would create for themselves, with no concept of ours.
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Comment #47197209
Updated based on feedback — added screenshots to the README and upgraded the story generator for a better narrative. Thanks for all the input.
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Comment #47196817
Thanks! The story generator is pretty simple right now — every 10,000 ticks the sim snapshots population stats, brain complexity, species changes, births/deaths, communication acti…
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Comment #47196766
Haven't come across Polyworld before — just looked it up and its super cool, especially for 1994. The vision system is a interesting design choice. Werld takes a different approach…
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Comment #47196726
This actually showed up in the first run, agents that invest more energy into offspring vs ones that fork cheap and fast. the ones that survived population crashes were the ones pa…
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Comment #47196679
hopefully it stays that way.... although I did start setting up a rig to host them on.
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Comment #47196557
completely agree on the heuristics (someone else mentioned the MIT Koan comment about this). And yeah Plaything is a little too close to home... no QR codes from werld agents yet t…
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Comment #47196530
got the updated version up and again, appreciate the nudge there!
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Comment #47196327
Appreciate this! and yeah the will wright talk is exactly what I was leaning into. Actually posted this on X 2 weeks ago, hosted the werld observatory public, and had gemini stream…
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Comment #47196241
Love the MIT AI Koans. Minsky's actual words to Sussman were "well, it has them, it's just that you don't know what they are." And he's right, the room isn't empty. Werld's room ha…
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Comment #47196151
should be starting with 30... if you're seeing 2 that might be an older default that I tried out (an adam and eve experiment). You can change it in the config too. On the dying imm…
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Comment #47196031
that would be true if there was a reward function. compute_reward() exists in the code, but it returns 0.0. they're only living/evolving to survive, and fork (reproduce). can't wir…
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Comment #47195652
completely fair, and thanks for the nudge - expect an updated readme shortly
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Show HN: Decided to play god this morning, so I built an agent civilisation
at a pub in london, 2 weeks ago - I asked myself, if you spawned agents into a world with blank neural networks and zero knowledge of human existence — no language, no economy, no …
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Comment #47195125
it's great to see so many AI powered enterprise software, agent infrastructures, dev tools, RGB wrapper... but who are you building for here? Startups as a whole have been focused …
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Show HN: Codified decades of domain expertise into open source agent skills
Hey HN! I'm Urav, the founder of Evos ( https://getevos.ai ) Evos started out as doing some AI consulting, while deploying these systems, I kept hitting the same problem: AI agents…
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