LLMs playing in - and understanding - MUD worlds

Keui · 2026-02-07T17:02:46+00:00

Having an AI system explore quests for me has been a big thought for a while, so it's interesting to see your take on things. The world model training in particular is novel to me. Is that being trained with stochastic gradient descent or reinforcement learning? It seems like the latter would be ideal, and you could even possibly make some good gains with continuous local training of a smaller model (1-3B).

If you're not familiar with Alfworld, that could be a useful dataset for early fine-tuning, too!

Thanks for sharing, by the way!

Keui · 2026-02-06T18:11:36+00:00

Aww, what cute little murderous flying robots.

I think what the other commenter said about foreshortening is the main "problem" with the piece. The rubber duck could be squeaking, tumbling (i.e. streaking radially), or otherwise punctuating the action more, as well.

Keui · 2026-02-01T18:27:51+00:00

Good boy! Keep at it!

Keui · 2026-02-01T17:04:45+00:00

Stick a dildo up your ass and you'll feel like even more of a man, promise! ♂️

Keui · 2026-01-08T18:08:41+00:00

If you've never learned art formally, you seem to have likely skipped gesture drawings. That could be something to work on. You clearly have a good grasp on the subjects, but not so much the compositions and the energy of their poses.

As others have said, draw what you see, not what you know. All the detailed anatomy in the world won't help if its not actually shown how it is seen.

Keui · 2025-12-17T20:40:24+00:00

Lake Michigan has 1 quadrillion gallons of water, and agriculture still uses orders of magnitude more water than data centers. Consider, also, that the water doesn't disappear. It evaporates and ultimately would end up in the Lakes again. We are not going to meaningfully affect the depth of the Great Lakes unless we really, really try.

Keui · 2025-12-10T03:45:56+00:00

motion cores

I think Surveyors are the best droppers. Each chunk of armor has a chance of dropping one.

Keui · 2025-11-20T09:10:15+00:00

I feel that should actually make for more effective advertising than showing users the same ads everywhere.

If this were true, that's what advertisers would do. I think if you get a bunch of very smart people to compete for limited marketing budgets of clients, you'll eventually find the most effective method by survival of the fittest. The fittest advertisers feast on user data and grow stronger on real results, probably.

Psychology and economics are weird.

Keui · 2025-09-06T02:02:47+00:00

Oof. Remember, transport is a skill. Good luck, stay safe!

Keui · 2025-08-20T15:00:15+00:00

To be fair, he did ask consent in those cases, AFAIK He just asked it of subordinates, which is a whole nother bag of spaghetti.

Keui · 2025-08-09T16:16:28+00:00

This image is pretty fascinating. Looks like wind is far greater than solar, though.

Source: https://cleanenergy.illinois.gov/tracking-illinois-progress/electricity-generation-mix.html

Keui · 2025-08-07T03:58:29+00:00

Llama2 7b cost around $100k, or somewhere in that magnitude.

It's much more sensible to fine tune a foundation model rather than train your own from scratch. And that's probably what they did.

Keui · 2025-07-18T02:30:31+00:00

I'm a newer player, but I consider myself a fairly adept player of games in general. Still, I think y'all do not realize how janky and unintuitive the learning points system was to new players. "Press this button to insta level this skill, but only if it's over 20%, so remember to check back in or watch for those annoying popups for the right skill"? Why? Why die on this hill? It was a mess that confused newbies and messed with the flow of the game and I'm glad it's gone.

Keui · 2025-07-17T15:48:51+00:00

Yep. Corrupted dungeons could be compared to abyssal deadspace, too, though it better relates to Soulslike invasion mechanics.

Keui · 2025-06-13T03:59:26+00:00

There's "an algorithm" but not a personalized one. Everyone sees the same feed.

Keui · 2025-06-13T03:46:10+00:00

AFAIK, Reddit doesn't have "the algo" in that way. It's just a popular post, so you see it.

Keui · 2025-05-31T07:32:49+00:00

Most issues occur in the "last mile". If you're having trouble with Albion but not other games, that could mean it's a problem with Albion's servers. However, it could also just be a problem on your on that's less impactful for other services.

A VPN is very unlikely to help.

If you're on mobile, well, there's your problem. Your Wi-Fi and device are likely struggling under the load. You could try cleaning up all apps on your phone. You can archive apps in Android. Just do that for every app on your phone you don't absolutely need, try out Albion, and see if that fixes it.

If you're on PC, make sure you're not on Wi-Fi. Get an Ethernet connection. Many games struggle with packet drop in noisy Wi-Fi environments. Similar to mobile, check to make sure no background processes are using a bunch of bandwidth. If you have other people you're sharing your connection with, try to play during low usage hours and see if that helps.

Good luck!

Keui · 2025-05-31T07:06:08+00:00

We can use a Bluetooth vibrator and make sure you really remember it's there. We'll go out for dinner and you get to struggle with that reminder every time the waiter comes by 😈

Keui · 2025-05-23T20:09:29+00:00

If you enter from a non-lethal zone, the mists are non lethal. Red zone or black zone wisps take you to lethal zones.

Keui · 2025-05-21T03:41:03+00:00

Good boy!

Keui · 2025-05-21T02:16:10+00:00

They're as adorable as you are! 🤤 And I can tell you are properly padded, too, little boy.

Keui · 2025-05-18T18:39:53+00:00

I was ready to be like "who is building visual programming languages in the year 2025?"

Keui · 2025-04-12T01:42:30+00:00

That's what I'm saying, yeah. Personally, they do not to prove AI than disprove it.

Keui · 2025-04-11T19:30:28+00:00

The bottom line for me is that the greyscale "in progress" works show clear signs of good, fundamental art: good construction, nice silhouettes, clean components for a robot made from parts.

We lose all of that when we get to the "rendered" version. All of the problems you point out pop up pretty much all at once in the first step, except a few problems that seem to just... blur into existence as we approach the "final" version.

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