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Infinite Craft

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Re: Infinite Craft

#161

This is fun. It would be interesting to build a single graph of concepts that all users contribute to. Then you wouldn't have to run LLM inference on every request, just the novel ones, plus you could publish the complete graph which would be something like an embedding space.

A lot of combinations return instantly, so I assume that it is in fact caching a lot.

Re: Infinite Craft

#163

Some interesting finds. Future + Time = Present (with a gift icon) Present + Present = Gift (So it's using the words not the concepts) Paradox + Snowman = Yeti (Makes sense) Arnold Schwarzenegger + Narwhal = Shwarzenwhaler (Shwarzenwhaler has 0 hits on Google, it made it up) Shwarzenwhaler + Time Machine = Hitler (with a crown icon) (I kid you not!) Unicorn + Hitler = Unihitler (I continue to kid you not!)

Future + Germany = Hitler

Plant + Germany = Beer

Flower + Germany = Hitler

(Harsh!)

Re: Infinite Craft

#164
post #4

I don't get it; maybe it's broken in my browser. I can drag 4 types of items to a floating grid that connects them but then nothing happens. EDIT: Ah, you drag items on top of each other for them to change. Instructions unclear, and I am dumb.

You can just click / tap on 2 items consecutively, without drag and drop.

I don't understand what you mean. Clicking does absolutely nothing for me. Clicking items in the right column does nothing; clicking items I've already placed does nothing. Clicking items consecutively does nothing, in either part of the screen.

I don't see how to use this at all without drag and drop.

Re: Infinite Craft

#165

This is very similar to https://littlealchemy.com or https://littlealchemy2.com

I was very confused at first too, and didn't understand the difference. As the other comments in the thread allude to though, this instead an LLM to allow for a much much larger number of combinations, which is the "neal.fun" twist on it.

I do wish it was a bit better stated on the page itself.

Re: Infinite Craft

#166

This is fun. It would be interesting to build a single graph of concepts that all users contribute to. Then you wouldn't have to run LLM inference on every request, just the novel ones, plus you could publish the complete graph which would be something like an embedding space.

A lot of combinations return instantly, so I assume that it is in fact caching a lot.

oh I just realized that 'isNew' in the response refers to a global set, not the user set. So, I guess it's doing exactly what I said lol.

Re: Infinite Craft

#167
post #152

Apparently I made 2 first discoveries, Meteorism and Rap God. Seems interesting, but after a while of things not combining it gets a little stale. I agree with others I kind of would like to see the lineage of the elements. I know of this video where Carykh graphed is own combination game, but all new element names were user provided. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQWwfYSUckY

Well I guess I wasn't doing weird enough combinations before, I now have (Hip hop + Crusade) Crusade Hop, T-Pain, (T-Pain + Painting) T-Painting, Haikupoid, Rapping, Slim Shady and the others already mentioned. I do like that I can convince it to make completely new concepts as long as the 2 inputs are weird enough.

Re: Infinite Craft

#168

I combined Fish and Fire and got Sushi, which is a dish that is famously made without any fire whatsoever. The game also decided to pair the Wheat emoji with the word Amber.

You should consider yourself lucky that you haven't witnessed the torched sushi craze [yet].

Re: Infinite Craft

#169
post #9

I couldn't find any information but does this use some kind of LLM to derive the combinations from? It makes a request to the backend every time you combine items which sometimes takes >500ms, and also supports some really wild combinations that I highly doubt someone has taken the time to come up with. It would also explain why the icons are emoji's, it would be fairly trivial to ask ChatGPT to give you the result o…

You are correct according to this tweet [0]. That may become inaccessible as Nitter dies, but the text is: > Working on an endless crafting game with llama 2 along with a video of this game. [0] https://nitter.cz/nealagarwal/status/1747284257582506102#m

Might be worth using farside for the link, which I found out about today on HN.

https://farside.link/https://twitter.com/nealagarwal/status/...

Re: Infinite Craft

#170
post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Forest + fire = smoke Mud + water = swamp Swamp + plant = Venus Flytrap Okay, okay. Venus Flytrap + Smoke = smoke detector

Tree + Water = river was also pretty baffling. Unfortunate. I can see the appeal of using an LLM for this but the results are pretty mediocre.

If you look at a river system from space I guess it looks tree-like with branches.
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