antirez: benchmark games trivially guessable from output biases; Astra misses Cannon

antirez · x · 2026-11-04

antirez critiques a paper on models playing games: he likes the direction but argues the chosen games can be trivially identified from output biases alone — e.g. the "green" channel (the player's color) concentrates at the center, a strong hint of a mostly static object.

He finds it shocking that Astra, with full tools, can't recognize the game as Cannon or similar, and suggests testing with games that can't be guessed from output biases.

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