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Posted by u/dragonkhoi a year ago
Show HN: What Beats Rock – AI Rock Paper Scissorswhatbeatsrock.com/...
Hi HN! We built a game for fun where you answer What Beats Rock? And you can type whatever you want. An LLM decides the outcome. Highscores reset every week.

One fun finding: We tried a lot of models and we found that Llama-3 is not as good at linking concepts to emojis as GPT-4o. Ultimately, 4o had the best reasoning skills that made this game possible.

thesephist · a year ago
Reminds me a lot of Infinite Craft (https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/).

The generative part of language models can make for really fun "single-player" games where you're really competing with the inventiveness of the language model, so there's some sense that you're playing a game with infinite hidden complexity.

dragonkhoi · a year ago
the latent space is so deep, you may never run out of possibilities...
jimbobthrowawy · a year ago
I appreciate that the site tells you when you create something that's never been discovered before. Especially when it happens with what you thought were pretty common combinations.
wakeforce · a year ago
I played this for an embarassingly long time. My high score that might entertain some engineers:

defective adhesive -> pipe repair patch -> fluid leak -> hydraulic press -> drill -> bucket -> water -> fire -> a giant pile of crisp hundred dollar bills -> budget cuts -> reliable engineering -> leaky lithium batteries -> uninterruptible power supply -> power outage -> electrochemical rust removal -> rust -> scissors -> paper -> rock

I had more creative ones (unsuccessfully tried stopping a supervolcano with an asteroid sized cork bottle cap), but it seems surprisingly grounded in 'reality', if we can say that!

dragonkhoi · a year ago
wow that is a great run. i love a giant pile of crisp hundred dollar bills. yes it's quite grounded in 'reality.' will play along / stretch a bit and does well with fictional characters too.
999900000999 · a year ago
I need to report a bug...

>Nas does not beat Eminem

>Eminem's 'Rap God' status trumps Nas. It's not just about Illmatic, folks!

mandmandam · a year ago
Cool! I'm reminded of the Oldest Game from Sandman [0].. Could this be made multiplayer?

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZOwaeAEIw0

heisenzombie · a year ago
Absolutely! Also, I tried this and the game agrees:

Hope -> Anti-life -> universe -> a nova -> a world -> butcher bacterium -> bird of prey -> serpent -> hunter -> dire wolf -> water -> rock

dragonkhoi · a year ago
wow that’s dope! maybe the writers played the game haha
dalmo3 · a year ago
> you are the 1st person to beat rock with Pringles

I like this game already.

dragonkhoi · a year ago
pringles are amazing, you are amazing
Sohcahtoa82 · a year ago
So I apparently am the first person to defeat Rock with The Goatse Guy. :-X

> The goatse guy can definitely make a rock disappear... in the most horrifying way possible. <goat emoji>

I then defeated him with "Christmas Island domain registrar"

> The Christmas Island domain registrar can shut down the Goatse guy's website faster than you can say 'NSFW'!

cainxinth · a year ago
Order does not beat entropy. That one stings.
NikkiA · a year ago
> nothing does not beat entropy

> Nothing beats entropy? That's like saying a vacuum cleaner can clean itself. Entropy always wins, folks!

Lame

Knarf7474 · a year ago
"You are the first person to beat planetary collision with love."

Love conquers all! It's like a cheatcode.

kordlessagain · a year ago
Actually, the leaderboard says "family" beats "love". So there you go.