Huh, Claude just implemented the optimal strategy to Nim and ran in it its analysis tool (the Javascript engine on my browser).
From: Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] genai and critical thinking On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM Marcus Daniels <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: [...] the evolving code itself -- code that can have informative types and even carry proofs. The weirdest thing about using AI is that it has no opinions. Claude will rewrite code without asking (seemingly having no self-control), but it will not confront you like a frustrated colleague might. It is happy to let you make a mess provided its sense of idiomatic code patterns are satisfied. This echoed something an old boss wrote me today: I have much enjoyment torturing llms. I can get off the rails rather easily. They have no state, by themselves they cannot calculate parity or play nim perfectly. Or one might say, they have no purpose. -- rec --
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