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arc-agi-3 launch march 25 · sf chollet × altman fireside at yc · · · games are the new training arenas for intelligence · · · if you're into: rl envs · simulations · ai × games come debrief after or just come hang before we all get back to work

@27upon2 @PrimeIntellect Let’s compare notes some time! I’m just getting started on this

This is so interesting, funny how you can just try things with the @PrimeIntellect Lab

The small new OpenAI models are great at runescape! For reference, GPT-5.4 Mini is 3x cheaper than Sonnet

@radihuq it could be run faster if the client->server netcode was improved to keep them from getting too far out of sync it is great at accomplishing goals and optimizing them but nobody is trying anything that long-horizon, @RobertHaisfield did rune mysteries quest

@maxbittker Nice, this is sick. Can it go even faster or are there hardware limits? Also are you setting any goals? It would be interesting to see if it can find a novel way to beat Settled’s UIM Firecape speedrun by running a bunch of simulations in parallel 👀

Gemini 3 Flash is a crazy standout in Runescape benchmarking. This is flash fishing 3 different setups (shrimp->salmon->swordfish) and comparing the XP rates as it goes. 10X cheaper than the other competitive models, the strategies and resourcefulness blew me away

@radihuq I have ticks sped up 10x to 60ms

@maxbittker How long are the ticks in this simulation? Or is even still using a tick system?

I’m in San Francisco 19th-26th, would love to talk about games / education / RL environments / open-endedness while I’m there. Also looking for a pickup basketball game or fun open mat!

@jpohhhh @SkylledDev thanks for sharing, not on my bingo card to see today!

@jpohhhh @SkylledDev wow

I have resurrected Fuchsia's Armadillo UI via a slop-upgrade from 2017 Flutter of old open source code jpohhhh.github.io/armadillazarus/ (buggy but working, some features in next tweets) (context: 9to5google.com/2017/05/10/fuc… by @SkylledDev )

fp4 values in case you need them: NaN, −∞, −3, −2, −1.5, −1, −0.5, 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, ∞, NaN

@tylerangert cc @eva_khoury_

Geronimo Stilton is reborn

@dwarkesh_sp @Ada_Palmer whoever is doing the shorts/clips for this interview is doing a great job with them!

Renaissance history is so much wilder and weirder than you would have expected. Very fun chatting w @Ada_Palmer about it. Some especially fascinating things I learned from the conversation and her excellent book, Inventing the Renaissance: Not only did Gutenberg go bankrupt in the 1450s (after inventing the printing press), but so did the bank that foreclosed on him, and so did his apprentices. This is because paper was still very expensive, and so you had to make this big upfront CAPEX decision to print a batch of 300 copies of a book - say the Bible. But he's in a small landlocked German town where only priests are allowed to read the Bible - so he sells maybe 7 copies. It’s only when this technology ends up in Venice, where you can hand 10 copies to each of 30 ship captains going to 30 different cities, that it starts taking off. Speaking of which, the printing revolution wasn’t just one single discrete event, just as the computer revolution has been this whole century of going from mainframes -> personal computers -> phones -> social media, each with different and accelerating social impact. Books came first, but they’re slow to print, and made in small batches. The real revolution is pamphlets - much faster, much harder to censor. Pamphlet runners are how you can have Luther's 95 Theses go from Wittenberg to London in 17 days. So much other wild stuff from this episode. For example, did you know that the largest and best-funded experimental laboratory in 17th century Europe was very likely the Roman one run by inquisitors? Ada jokes that the Inquisition accidentally invented peer review. The focus of the Inquisition is really misunderstood - it was obsessed with catching dangerous new heretics like Lutherans and Calvinists - it only executed one person for doing science. And this leads Ada to make an observation that I think is really wise: the authorities and censors are always worried about the exact wrong things given 20/20 hindsight. When Inquisition raids an underground bookshop during the French Enlightenment, they don’t mind the Rousseau, Voltaire, and Encyclopédie, but they lose their minds about some Jansenist treatises about the technical nature of the Trinity. More broadly, a lesson for me from this episode is that it’s just really hard to shape history in the specific way that you want to impact things. One of the most famous medieval scholars is this guy Petrarch. He survives the Black Death in the 1340s, watches his friends die to plague and bandits, and says: our leaders are selfish and terrible, we need to raise them on the Roman classics so they'll act like Cicero. So Europe pours money into finding ancient manuscripts, building libraries, and educating princes on classical virtues. Those princes grow up and fight bigger, nastier wars than ever before with new deadlier technology. And this, combined with greater urbanization and endemic plague, results in European life expectancy decreasing from 35 in the medieval period to 18 during the Renaissance (the period which we in retrospect think of as a golden age but which many people living through it thought of as the continuation of the dark ages that had persisted since the fall of Rome). Anyways, the libraries Petrarch inspires stick around, the printing press makes them accessible to everyone, and 200 years later a generation of medical students is reading Lucretius and asking "what if there are atoms and that's how diseases work?" which eventually leads to germ theory, vaccines, and a cure for the Black Death (Ada has longer more involved explanation of how cosplaying the Romans results through a series of many steps to the scientific revolution). Petrarch wanted to produce philosopher-kings that shared his values. Instead he created a world that doesn't share his values at all but can cure the disease that destroyed his. So much other interesting stuff in the full episode - hope you enjoy! Timestamps: 0:00:00 - How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the Renaissance 0:28:49 - How Florence's weird republic worked 0:38:13 - How the Medicis took over Florence 0:58:12 - Why it was so hard for Gutenberg to make any money off the printing press 1:17:34 - Why the industrial revolution didn't happen in Italy 1:23:02 - The slow diffusion of paper through Europe 1:41:21 - The Inquisition accidentally invented peer review Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.

This evening ends with some darkness. "Just for fun". dark.ronacher.eu/2026/3/14/the-…

monitor the situation from right inside your terminal made in less than a day using opus 4.6 via @NousResearch's hermes agent

@samhenrigold did you see that ada palmer liked your essay

ran into zohran just now while getting coffee. really nice guy. ironically this was the playlist i was listening to

@samhenrigold 🥲

asking the user's agents for feature requests is the logical next step

A product where your agent 1) onboards for you 2) reports bugs _automatically_ if it fails to do so

@a_uselis For acting specifically, for input it’s okay! They have a screenshot command they are able to use when they need to see

@a_uselis It doesn’t work great in my experiments

on MCPs vs CLIs: RS-SDK supports interactive exploration via MCP server where the agent sends typescript snippets to control the runescape bot. I got influenced by the MCP-hate and tested replacing this with a CLI + stateful daemon process, but it performed worse.