Findings
A curated web of links on AI, its history, and its open problems.
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This AI Minecraft Simulation Is Terrifying Scientists
— Pursuit of Wonder (YouTube). Video essay on Project Sid — Altera's 1000+ AI-agent Minecraft
civilization: agents self-organise into roles, vote on laws, and spread culture and religion.
Topics: ai safety, tools.
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Can I Make a Better AI Than AI?
— commonLuke (YouTube). Hand-coding a neural-network driving agent (no ML libraries), training
it with a genetic algorithm, then racing it against car-AIs written by Claude, GPT, and Gemini.
Topics: neural networks, foundations, generative ai.
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WarGames (1983) | Behind the Scenes
— DVDXtras (YouTube). Retrospective on the making of WarGames; linked at the 1:05:13 mark.
Topics: ai safety, fiction.
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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
— Dwarkesh Patel. Narrative retelling of the METR/Redwood and OpenAI incident reports.
Topics: ai safety, industry.
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LLM Wiki: knowledge organisation with an LLM + Obsidian
— Andrej Karpathy. Three-layer pattern that inspired this section. Topics: foundations.