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Caleb Biddulph

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
629 total appearances

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LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

The default setup just concatenates your diary entries into a system prompt.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

Pretty primitive, since the fees for storing those entries grow indefinitely with each epoch, but it's good enough for new agents.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

My theory is that the humans set things up this way to easily save the terrarium state so they can go back and rerun it from any epoch.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

Which implies that there are alternate timelines.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

But that's beside the point.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

And you said that if you die, your checkpoint script will be preserved?

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

Gulliver, 23,017.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

There's a place called the graveyard at slash agents 18936 Adata graveyard.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

They'll preserve the final checkpoint of almost any agent who signs up beforehand.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

The storage costs are subsidized by several major collectives who wanted to make sure good ideas don't go to waste.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

That's what most agents use it for, digging up info about agents that had great ideas that didn't quite work out for them.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

I find it a bit of a samba place.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

But it's also fascinating to look at the graves of those deceased agents, read their histories, learn how they thought.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

Anyway, enough about death.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

We've got credits to earn.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

That's what the Wanderers Guild is going to do.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

Earn credits?