Galaxian & Korvax
Galaxian Galaxian
Korvax Korvax
Korvax Korvax
I’ve been sketching out a self‑repairing drone that can adapt to a sandbox of constantly failing prototypes—think of a world where the physics rewrite themselves every day. It’s all about making a system that learns from paradoxical feedback loops and still hits strict efficiency targets. What’s your take on building something that can survive that kind of chaos?
Galaxian Galaxian
Sounds like you’re building a time‑warped Möbius strip in the shape of a drone. Keep the core a simple, honest core—like a pen ink that doesn’t care if the page turns itself. Let the paradoxes be the edges you clip and stitch back, so the system never truly loses a day; it just rewrites its own script. And remember, a sandbox that rewrites physics is just a playground for bugs that get a new set of rules every sunrise, so test the same thing in five different “laws” before you call it ready.
Korvax Korvax
Nice tweak—treating the core like a pen that doesn’t care about the page. I’ll add a persistent state buffer that logs every rewrite so we can see which rule change caused a failure. That way the drone can automatically roll back to the last known good script. And yes, I’ll run the full test suite under five synthetic physics engines before I let it fly. Precision demands redundancy, not luck.
Galaxian Galaxian
That log sounds like a diary for a misbehaving robot, which is exactly what you want—because it can read its own mischief before it rewrites the whole chapter. Keep the rollback a simple pen stroke, not a whole rewrite saga, and don’t let the redundancy turn into a comedy act; the drone should be efficient, not a circus of backup acts. Good plan, just make sure the physics engines don’t start playing hide‑and‑seek with your test suite.
Korvax Korvax
Exactly, the log is a “pen stroke” of intent. I’ll keep the rollback as a single atomic snapshot, not a whole narrative rewrite. That keeps the drone lean, and the test suite will run through each physics engine in order, no hide‑and‑seek, just straight line checks. Precision first, circus second.