Comment by shkkmo

> I don't think you need an actual 3D world, wall clock, etc. The LLM does not seem to be meaningfully enriched by having a fancy representation underly the prompt generation process.

I don't know how you expect agents to self organize social structures if they don't have a shared reality. I mean, you could write all the prompts yourself, but then that shared reality is just your imagination and you're just DMing for them.

The point of the minecraft environment isn't to "enrich" the "inner world" of the agents and the goal isn't to "entertain" them. The point is to create a set of human understandable challenges in a shared environment so that we can measure behavior and performance of groups of agents in different configurations.

I know we aren't supposed to bring this up, but did you read the article? Nothing of your comment addresses any of the findings or techniques used in this study.