https://sopuli.xyz/u/etuomaala posted on Mar 10, 2026 07:45
If you teach an AI to play video games by letting it press whatever buttons it wants and rewarding it for maximizing point totals, then it comes up with an interesting strategy for Tetris.
It pauses the game. And it never loses.
If they apply the same strategy to Global Thermonuclear War I’m willing to give them Tetris.
First it maximizes a certain value that it sees going up: block verticality
Against whom did you play?
If single player: can one even win?
I think there was a version (NES maybe) that old crash when you got passed a certain level and a counter went out of bounds, called a kill screen.
Oh? I only knew from pacman for example. Interesting.
Many have tried and failed, and yet here I stand, propped up my seldom seen long piece…
I bet you were blocked from winning. In fact, if you look closely at this conspiracy theory you’ll see that all the pieces line up!