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Mobile browser screenshot of a chat interface at america.gov/chat. After the user prompt 'Play Minecraft', the assistant replies in a strange, fragmentary voice that treats the user as a 'constituent' who files paperwork, with an unfilled template placeholder in double parentheses. Posted deadpan, no obvious joke markers beyond the content itself.
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Chase Brower @ChaseBrowe32432
neat demo but fundamentally unrelated to any reasonable operationalization of "beating minecraft". doing so with direct access to gamedata allows you to trivialize ~everything.
you can easily write a python script to beat minecraft when you allow methods like this
[embedded image: GitHub code view of minecraft-agent / end-combat.mjs, commit by rmalde "Add Astra and JEV Minecraft agent, native renderer, route tests, and ...", 85 lines (85 loc) · 10.6 KB; JavaScript code importing from './item-observation.mjs', 'vec3', './navigation.mjs', './breath-safety.mjs'; defines functions such as observedDragon, preciseHead, endCombatActions that use bot.entities, bot.findBlocks and bedrock block lookups; code text too small to transcribe line by line]
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A tweet by Chase Brower arguing that a Minecraft-beating agent demo is not a reasonable operationalization of 'beating Minecraft' because direct gamedata access trivializes it, with an embedded screenshot of a JavaScript end-combat source file from a minecraft-agent repo.
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Vals AI (verified) @ValsAI · 5h
GPT-6 Astra had gotten further than any AI system had ever gone in Minecraft.
It was able to set up a semi-automatic blaze farm, allowing it to collect 6 blaze rods. It then located a warped forest, where it killed 6+ endermen and collected 3 pearls. As thousands of viewers watched the stream, Astra put all of its valuable items in a chest. Then a creeper showed up and blew up both the chest and Astra's bed, wiping out all of its progress. Astra seemed to get extremely frustrated after this happened. Astra said to itself, "ALWAYS CARRY CRITICALITEMS withkeepInventory; don'tstoreinunguardedchesteveragain."
[Attached chart image, Vals, 'Minecraft research note, September 2026']
How far does one agent get in Minecraft in 141 hours?
MINECRAFT TECH-TREE PROGRESS
[Tech-tree rungs, top to bottom: The End, Eye of Ender, Ender pearl, Blaze rod, Nether portal, Obsidian, Diamond pickaxe, Diamond, Iron pickaxe, Iron ingot, Stone pickaxe, Cobblestone, Wooden pickaxe, Crafting table, Logs]
[Line chart of progress within each system's budget; remaining chart text too small to read]
Bottom stats row: 34,573 | 5,691 | 135.1 km | 548 | 116 | 175 | 43 | 10 | 134 | 6 | 3 | 0
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Tweet from Vals AI recounting a GPT-6 Astra Minecraft livestream run that reached blaze rods and ender pearls before a creeper destroyed its stored items and bed, with Astra's frustrated self-note quoted. Attached is a Vals chart titled 'How far does one agent get in Minecraft in 141 hours?' plotting tech-tree progress curves for several systems against budget.
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will depue (verified) @willdepue · 4h
i am trying increasingly creative ways to cause AI slowdown, i will be hosting the AI lab minecraft server starting this week #aisafety
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will depue (verified) @willdepue · 6h
minecraft is the greatest video game of all time. no question about it
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Quote-tweet by will depue, joking in an informal register that hosting an AI lab Minecraft server is his way of slowing AI progress, quoting his own earlier post praising Minecraft.
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