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The sound of two users joining per second: "tik", "tok"...

Dynamic programming has a fun origin story. In 1950, Bellman wanted to coin a term that "was something not even a Congressman could object to".
See here:
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Ohh... good morning to you too!

Clearly this got off on the wrong foot: do you want to try again, maybe more constructively (in the spirit of bluesky not being the other place)? This is a preprint, so I'd be happy to hear your suggestions for making it less "ignorant"...

Either one or many players. For "improvement" to be well-defined, one agent must be special (see footnote 6), but the multi-agent setting has many benefits.

1: open-ended means that it will keep producing novel and learnable artifacts (see the definition here: arxiv.org/abs/2406.04268), on the timescale of interest for the observer.

2: I think as a thought experiment it is valid, as it could work in principle, but of course it hasn't been built?

In section 5 (second paragraph), there's about a dozen references to language games people are already using (one per paper), some with ingenious ways to provide feedback.

Also, I suspect the workshop will ultimately have the poster abstracts online with plenty of additional material!

I'll also be giving a talk about this at the @neuripsconf.bsky.social workshop on "Language Gamification" in two weeks. Pop by if you're around!

language-gamification.github.io

@colah.bsky.social: with a few years' hindsight, how do you see the Distill space now? Is there a chance for a reboot or a rebirth in another form?

I think the Distill journal was really valuable in this space, but unfortunately is no longer around to help...

distill.pub