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That's definitely true, but only to a certain point, after a while it becomes too monotonous to dig around in chests building and combining stuff in an ad hoc manner. LLMs have no problem with that kind of repetitive minutia though.

Yes, the insane hardware requirements make it totally impractical - that's why I say "turn based" because turn based games would at least allow for a practical gameplay experience even with remote LLM APIs.

LLMs could be interesting geopolitical roleplayers if instructed to faithfully assume the leadership traits or cultural biases of the their intended role, especially in games with expressive diplomacy systems like Stellaris or Europa Universalis. It could also make the diplomacy experience a lot richer because the LLM is able to interpret ligusitic tone and other verbal cues. The modern diplomacy experience is basically just a dialog tree with stats and dice rolls attached to it.

SOTA LLMs would probably be fun opponents in turn based 4x.

> Robots: they're just like us!

Hah I dunno, I think most human players wouldn't find that very fun and would instead take that as an opportunity to refactor the factory for optimized performance (i.e. the core gameplay loop)

It's just easier to do manual stuff when the complexity of scaling the automation becomes cognitively demanding. A new player does mostly everything manually while experienced players have a natural intuition for planning and scaling the automation.

Current flavor of the week variant of OpenClaw "feels useful". Now that's an endorsement.

My frustration doesn't matter to anyone except me.

They are still hanging into the false belief that software quality matters to anyone besides good developers.

The popular media is driving the discourse around these topics, nobody is interested in the arbitrary definitions of anonymous randos on niche internet forums.

> inference is profitable

People keep repeating this, but it is only remotely close to true if you evaluate inference in a vacuum without any of the other supporting costs to facilitate that capability.

Just a few years ago people were saying the same thing about WeWork: "leasing is profitable, the unit economics of individual locations is net positive", and yet...

> They are going to college to increase their earning potential, and that’s about it

If we accept the narrative that LLMs can defeat the incentive structure of course work as a concept, it raises the question of if college will continue to raise earning potential for much longer.

Not exactly a trillion dollar business.

> The naysayers are like the people that said this little internet thing wasn’t going anywhere.

The same rhetorical tactic was used to diminish blockchain critics.

I don't necessarily object to your definitions, but the most widely used one in the popular media describes an AI that is so intelligent that it can trivially wrest control of the world away from humans - that's the definition I was referring to.