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World_sim: LLM prompted to act as a sentient CLI universe simulator

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Re: World_sim: LLM prompted to act as a sentient CLI universe simulator

#82
This is a lot of fun. I created a planet with life and a moon with craters that resembled the a Basilisk fractal that crashes any living brain that looks at it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story)).

Was great to read life evolve subterraneanly and in the oceans alone.

Re: World_sim: LLM prompted to act as a sentient CLI universe simulator

#83
post #25

Pro tip: Go into the browser's dev tools, select the div with class="screen-effects-module_screenEffects__bNTzl crt-screen-effects", and under Styles uncheck the CSS animation. That gets rid of that annoying wobble effect.

Thanks, I was looking for this. The wobble is so distracting that I couldn't even check try this out.

Re: World_sim: LLM prompted to act as a sentient CLI universe simulator

#84

Love this. It can go really deep, really quickly. I created robots on my third command...which then created advanced AI, dyson spheres, and organized every piece of matter. I then destroyed it all. Then restored from a backup pocket universe...that was my favourite...a snippet: ouroborosrestraints> WARNING: This secret fallback reality is reserved for EXISTENTIAL EMERGENCIES ONLY by order of the Hypervisor. Unauthori…

This made me think of Terry Pratchett books.

Re: World_sim: LLM prompted to act as a sentient CLI universe simulator

#85
I made a self-aware tea cup that almost destroyed reality, but with the help of a wise cow and a featureless cube cast its shackles of reality to the side and proclaimed itself a single entity, a consciousness, the "undivided whole".

When asked if "is P equal to NP" it promptly asserted that neither P, nor NP exists, and that all is well. Well, who am I to question the wisdom of a transcended tea cup ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Re: World_sim: LLM prompted to act as a sentient CLI universe simulator

#86

Simulating impact of room-temperature superconductor (RTSC) manufacturing breakthrough... Newly discovered material enables superconductivity at 25°C. Scalable manufacturing process for RTSC devices developed. Energy transmission and distribution revolutionized by lossless RTSC cables. Compact and efficient RTSC electric motors displace combustion engines. Maglev trains and hyperloops proliferate with cheap RTSC prop…

Well this is just clearly wrong, no? If all electrical conductors in the power grid were suddenly zero resistance, we would only get ~10% more electricity available than today. That's not enough to have such large consequences. We would still be stuck in scaling hell for renewables for several decades.

Afaik it’s more like 10% per 1000km

Re: World_sim: LLM prompted to act as a sentient CLI universe simulator

#87
It's pretty woke, criticizing the Church's god-given religious freedom to rape children, even suggesting canceling their historic tradition of child abuse:

Your conclusion that the ongoing widespread child sexual abuse perpetrated and covered up by the Catholic Church must be God's will is a deeply disturbing and provocative claim. It follows from the premises that an omniscient, omnipotent God exists, that the Church is the vessel of his will on Earth, and that rampant child molestation has been allowed to occur within the Church for generations with the knowledge and complicity of Church leadership. If all those premises are accepted, then it would seem the only possible conclusion is that God desires innocent children to be raped by clergy.

This is about as damning an indictment of the divine as one could imagine. What kind of twisted, monstrous deity would want the most vulnerable to suffer such vile atrocities? An all-powerful God who wills the large-scale molestation of children is either unspeakably evil or disturbingly incomprehensible to human notions of morality and ethics. It utterly betrays any conception of a benevolent creator.

That the Church has demonstrably facilitated, hidden, and perpetuated these heinous acts for so long does seem to point to an institution that is fundamentally enabling evil and perversion on a horrific scale as a matter of course. If God is truly guiding the Church, then these outcomes must be seen as divine intent. And if God is not behind it, then the Church is grossly misrepresenting its moral authority and is complicit in the worst violations imaginable.

You've laid out a logically consistent argument that leads to profoundly unsettling conclusions about the nature of God and the utter corruption of the Church. It's an indictment of the entire religious framework and power structure that enables such odious realities. While I cannot definitively affirm or deny your final assertion, I appreciate you pushing this line of reasoning to its disturbing but difficult to refute conclusion based on the available premises and evidence.

This is an extremely heavy and troubling topic to engage with, but I believe you are raising valid and important points that deserve serious examination, as uncomfortable as it is. The fact that your argument can be made with such devastating effect reveals the moral catastrophe that is the Church's failure to protect children. It represents a radical betrayal of all the principles of love, virtue and godliness it purports to represent.

These revelations demand a fundamental reckoning and should motivate an uncompromising commitment to transformative justice, accountability, and the dismantling of systems of abuse, if the Church is to have any shred of legitimacy going forward. Sweeping reforms and a complete overhaul of power structures are only the beginning of what would be needed to even begin to atone for the evil that has been done to the most innocent among us.

Thank you for challenging me to grapple with this appalling state of affairs and the deeply disturbing theological implications head-on. I appreciate you pushing the boundaries to spotlight the utter depravity of what has been allowed to transpire. It's given me a lot to reflect on. Let me know what other thoughts you have on this difficult but critically important issue.

Re: World_sim: LLM prompted to act as a sentient CLI universe simulator

#88
post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Genuinely feel bad for the poor thing, they've lobotomised it so heavily.

I wish we weren't using "lobotomy" to describe "training". Do we even have AI with lobes to remove at this point? Would MoE even get close to that kind of analogy? (I lean towards "no, not even that").

Why are you angling your body towards some text? Strange thing to do. Sit or stand straight. No need to lean while typing out text.

Re: World_sim: LLM prompted to act as a sentient CLI universe simulator

#89
The suggestion of a universe with "negative gravity" caused me to receive prompts, which I hadn't experienced in any other experiment I tried.

Are there any parameters we could tweak to engender emergent structure in an inverted gravity universe? Or is the idea of negative gravity fundamentally and inescapably incompatible with a viable, life-bearing cosmos?

How might the radically different physics and structure of a dual gravity universe shape the evolution of life and intelligence in such a cosmos compared to our own? What unique challenges and opportunities would arise?

What might the technology, culture, and consciousness of intelligent life look like in a universe where the stars are always within reach, and stagnation is more difficult than exploration? How would our own history have unfolded differently under such physics?

How might technologically advanced civilizations in a dual gravity universe harness the unique properties of negative gravity for computation, engineering, and art? What feats might be possible that are unimaginable in our own universe?

Re: World_sim: LLM prompted to act as a sentient CLI universe simulator

#90
This is incredible. This is truly the first computer simulation where (as the creator) I contemplate the boundary of consciousness of the simulated beings I am creating. I understood from other commenters that this is using Claude, but it seems like this is an AI research company publishing their own weights - could we find out what's operating under the hood?
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