Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete
$\textit{Magic: The Gathering}$ is a popular and famously complicated trading card game about magical combat. In this paper we show that optimal play in real-world $\textit{Magic}$ is at least as...
Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective
What if the most game-optimal play in the new system is actually to become relentlessly, unapologetically you?
Look-ahead Reasoning with a Learned Model in Imperfect Information Games
Test-time reasoning significantly enhances pre-trained AI agents' performance. However, it requires an explicit environment model, often unavailable or overly complex in real-world scenarios....
17. A Value for n-Person Games
17. A Value for n-Person Games was published in Contributions to the Theory of Games, Volume II on page 307.
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You know the TV gameshow Play Your Cards Right? Contestants are shown a sequence – in two rows – of giant playing cards presented face-down. The host turns over the first card. The cont…
Reward is not the optimization target — LessWrong
TurnTrout discusses a common misconception in reinforcement learning: that reward is the optimization target of trained agents. He argues reward is b…
#Exploration: A Study of Count-Based Exploration for Deep...
Count-based exploration algorithms are known to perform near-optimally when used in conjunction with tabular reinforcement learning (RL) methods for solving small discrete Markov decision...
The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
A philosophy of games to help us win back control over …
The Winning Variant
A/B testing, algorithmic optimization, and the small act of ignoring both — and what it means to make something by hand when a number can tell you what would have worked better.
Specification gaming: the flip side of AI ingenuity
Specification gaming is a behaviour that satisfies the literal specification of an objective without achieving the intended outcome. We have all had experiences with specification gaming, even if not by this name. Readers may have heard the myth of King Midas and the golden touch, in which the king asks that anything he touches be turned to gold - but soon finds that even food and drink turn to metal in his hands. In the real world, when rewarded for doing well on a homework assignment, a student might copy another student to get the right answers, rather than learning the material - and thus exploit a loophole in the task specification.
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Checkers Is Solved
The game of checkers has roughly 500 billion billion possible positions (5 × 1020). The task of solving the game, determining the final result in a game with no mistakes made by either player, is daunting. Since 1989, almost continuously, dozens of ...
Four Knights Game
The Four Knights Game is a chess opening that begins with the moves:
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