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71 points by dragonkhoi ↗ HN
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.

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thesephist
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
the latent space is so deep, you may never run out of possibilities...
jimbobthrowawy
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.
dragonkhoi
yes you feel very creative and cool! (and slightly disappointed in others for not having come up with this yet!)
mandmandam
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
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
wow that’s dope! maybe the writers played the game haha
atum47
> Scissors are sharp and can cut through anything, including inappropriate humor. Let's keep it classy, folks!
999900000999
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!

sans_souse
dog beats paper. what beats dog? assholes beat dogs. what beats assholes? bubba beats assholes. what beats bubba? prison beats bubba.
sans_souse
This is actually quite enjoyable. Is this the "proper" way to play RPS, or is this a made-up variant?
1oooqooq
interesting, smarter ai cannot beat ai. but evil ai beats ai.

too afraid to continue playing.

dragonkhoi
wow. that is. very scary that an ai would say that.
catchmeifyoucan
This is fun! There should be a way to "appeal" an answer so we can keep going
Sohcahtoa82
At the very least, it'd be nice to be able to "go back", even if it disqualifies you from the leader board.
NoahKAndrews
On Android, the text field gets covered up by the keyboard
wakeforce
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
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.
other_herbert
lol

Fire Bucket Hose Candle Power failure Welder Shovel Scissors paper rock

kyleqian
This is weirdly addicting. It's like playing an LLM rogue-like.
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dalmo3
> you are the 1st person to beat rock with Pringles

I like this game already.

dragonkhoi
pringles are amazing, you are amazing
ivm
> baseball bat does not beat asteroid

Not with this attitude, mr. LLM

LVB
I feel like these all will somehow lead to “philosophy”
derbOac
I got to "entropy" and then stumped myself.
dragonkhoi
there are several answers people have come up with that do beat entropy!
Knarf7474
"You are the first person to beat planetary collision with love."

Love conquers all! It's like a cheatcode.

kordlessagain
Actually, the leaderboard says "family" beats "love". So there you go.
rusticpenn
Photon Time Sun earth asteroid volcano paper rock
malteg
looping:

rocks wooden house poverty money lawyer law social fraud social welfare unemployment work fantasy real life star wars star trek black matter wormhole time big rip universe black holes sun moon day night solar panel electrical outage fan candle wax jacket soft shell jacket air umbrella recycle bin plastic bag rock

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cainxinth
Order does not beat entropy. That one stings.
NikkiA
> nothing does not beat entropy

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

Lame

malnourish
"Enough paper that it has the same mass as the Earth _does not_ beat rock"

Curious why that doesn't beat rock, but plain ol' paper does.

dragonkhoi
if you have too much paper you cant cover the rock like a single sheet can. it's like why 2D spaces can wrap up 3D spaces.
hayley-patton
I got lazy, to be fair:

MORE book burning -X-> multi location backups -> book burning -> passing down fables -> the ever-finite span of life -> convection and time -> volcano induced winter -> lots of lava -> lots of water -> base -> acid -> angle grinder -> hammer -> rock

dragonkhoi
i love that passing down fables beat the ever-finite span of life. stories last beyond our lifetimes.