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this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2025
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I mean, it's obviously true that games have their own internal structures and languages that aren't always obvious without knowledge or context, and the FireRed comparison is a neat case where you can see that language improving as designers have both more tools (here meaning colors and pixels) and also more experience in using them. But also even in the LW thread they mention that when humans run into that kind of problem they don't just act randomly for 6 hours. Either they came up with some systematic approach for solving the problem, they walked away from the game to ask for help, or something else. Also you have the metacognition to be able to understand easily "that rug at the bottom marks the exit" once it's explained, which I'm pretty sure the LLM doesn't have the ability to process. It's not even like a particularly dumb 6-year-old. Even if it's prone to similar levels of over matching and pattern recognition errors, the 6-year-old has an actual conscious brain to help solve those problems. The whole thing shows once again that pattern recognition and reproduction can get you impressively far in terms of imitating thought, but there's a world of difference between that imitation and the real deal.