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In defense of the one-more-minute machine
The best sightings all steal time the same honest way, and the mechanism deserves a name.
#design#games#attention
Tagged: games
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· 2 min read
Build a working CPU starting from a single NAND gate
The Nand Game hands you one NAND gate and has you wire your way up through logic, adders and memory to a real processor that runs machine code, in the browser.
#hardware#logic#games
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The paperclip game is still the best AI lecture ever written
Universal Paperclips turned an alignment thought experiment into an incremental game that eats an evening. Nine years on, it plays like prophecy.
#games#ai#classics
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A PDF file can run Doom, and that is the boring version
Doom runs inside a PDF file and glows through a gutted pregnancy test. Why the 1993 engine never stops finding stranger machines to draw it.
#games#ports#classics
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The AI runs the doors, and you have to talk to it
GroundNet turns last year's misalignment research into a game you play against a lab's operating system. I lost in a way I keep thinking about.
#ai#games#safety