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Show HN: A strategy game about the AI race where you can't verify alignment

criticalwindow.org
6 points·by micstradev·7 hari yang lalu·0 comments

Show HN: Learn from 30 historical figures, open source, nonprofit, self-hosted

github.com
49 points·by micstradev·bulan lalu·24 comments

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micstradev
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Thank you. A lot of our content is pre-created and not live generated. Every figure has a fact check modal, which can also be fetched via CDN, for example:

https://media.agoracosmica.org/factchecks/en/jung.json

For the live generated content, sure, we cannot rule out hallucinations. From testing it feels like a grounded instruction helps, but to be honest we have not measured it. Therefore we have the "Echo" framing, disclaimers on the landing pages, and checkboxes when entering the app.

A registry is not planned because every figure needs a lot of pre-created content. As mentioned in another comment we plan to add more figures in the future, but we will let the community decide which one.
micstradev
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You are not the only one and we fully support text for all modes and features. For the conversations voice is turned on by default, but you can quickly switch it off in the settings. For the pre-created content we try to create a nice reading experience, see the tour in the repo. Stories, councils and prism discussions show the full text in sync, so you can just mute it and read.
micstradev
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We have no custom models and no fine tuning. It is the base model, Qwen3 235B for the free tier and we recommend Qwen3.6 27B for the local mode. So the figures are data, not weights. We have instruction files for every figure and additional voice profiles for the councils. The work was put into the iterations to improve the instructions. It is possible to fetch them from the CDN, for example: https://media.agoracosmica.org/instructions/jung/free_conver...

I like your primary texts idea. For our case we tried to keep the instructions lean to have them around 4k tokens, so that it also works in local mode for users with limited context.
micstradev
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Good question. For Kolb it is loosely, not strictly. We have 4 modes. Story is the experience part in which the user lives through the life as a narrated episode. Wisdom is the reflection, you talk about the teaching with the figure. Then prism, the same teaching from the perspective of 4 figures, is the conceptualization. Quest is the experimentation. We tried to implement the experimentation best possible but that is also the limit of an app, as this can only truly happen in life and therefore, we like the user to outgrow the app. We have in the modal in which the teachings are presented in detail also a practice part, in which we give some exercises, but we see it as not in the scope of the app, as it would be too much. Maybe something we can implement in a better way in the future.
micstradev
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Thank you.
micstradev
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Thank you. Hesse would be a great fit, especially as our nonprofit is based in Germany. We plan to add more figures in the future, but the plan is to let the community decide which gets added next.
micstradev
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You are right, we can not capture a messy and complicated human being. Therefore we tried our best to frame it right with the “Echo“ and disclaimer. We have the fact check sheets to show what is recreated and what the facts are. We also have the shadow section in the fact check sheets to show that these humans were messy, but tried to portray them inside the platform for what they gave to the world, all under the objective to make hard accessible wisdom / philosophy more accessible, as a doorway, that people outgrow us and move from our introduction to primary texts and human teachers.
micstradev
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Thanks. I put 3 years of my life to build it, founded a nonprofit, so it is more than an experiment. In regards of business, it stays nonprofit, no investors, no exit. We will provide free messages and we will continue running our gpu servers in the long run. Our goal is to make wisdom and philosophy accessible. What will change in the next 6 to 12 months is that the complete content will transition to CC-BY 4.0. The plan is also that the development is community driven, user who engage earn voting power to vote for the next features.
micstradev
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