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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

New video on functions in hyperspace: www.youtube.com/watch?v=349r... and a fun little webtoy: evolvecode.io/hyperspace/i...

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

New video on Emergent Complexity: youtu.be/0HqUYpGQIfs?... (the visual is Particle Life)

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I just passed 5 years on youtube, and 5 years since I released my evolution simulator, the Life Engine! A little video+sim update for the occasion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DksO...

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Evolving Brains in the Life Engine (5 Year Anniversary!)

YouTube video by Emergent Garden

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

mindcraft now has an official research paper behind it! new video announcing it: youtu.be/MeEcxh9St24?... Paper: mindcraft-minecollab.github.io/index.html

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Mindcraft Research Paper!

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

new video, my thoughts on AI coding and AI agents: youtu.be/1OxBv9Q7Uxo?...

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"Vibe Coding"

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Common Side Effects is a very good show

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I realized the LLM agents can simulate Conway's Game of Life in Minecraft. This was always possible, but very tricky to do. This is claude-thinking. I wonder what else was always possible.

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

um i've been sleeping on claude-thinking. wow.

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

claude 3.7 villager skyscraper Not noticeably better at building than 3.6. Definitely more confused, gets formatting/syntax wrong a lot, similar problem for every reasoning model I've used in minecraft. I suspect they are overfitting on benchmarks, and struggle to generalize to agentic tasks.

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

and now I'm DONE staring at a computer screen. rock climbing time

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

On the bright side, AI also enables enormous beneficial creativity. These are "utopia tower", skyscrapers made by stacking optimized homes with villagers inside

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

AI is powerful and dangerous (in minecraft). In my new video, I demonstrate that all LLMs are willing to build cathedrals and utopias, and bombs and torture chambers. Here is o3-mini-high, destroying a village it had just enhanced🧵

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

And sorry for falling behind on genuary, but also who cares. I'm cranking out a video, it is taking up my time. I will probably do some late genuary posts afterwards.

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

build the forbidden palace. deepseek r1, claude 3.5 sonnet, and o1.

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Day 24: Geometric Art Evolving an image again, this time with circles. Can you tell what the target image is? #genuary #genuary24

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Day 23: brutalist architecture. #genuary Built by o1! The real deal, not preview, not mini. Finally got access. Impressive stuff. Full vid on patreon. More to come.

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Day 22: Gradients only. These are the gradients for the surface below. I HAD to use o1 to compute partial derivatives, the original function was a doozy. #genuary #genuary22

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Day 21: Collision detection (line intersections) No AI help! I had to break out a notebook for some middle school algebra. Years ago I failed a programming interview question for intersecting lines. This is my revenge. #genuary21 #genuary

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Day 20: Generative architecture. Using the Replay mod to capture AI builds! o1-preview asked to build a roman villa. Kinda impressive, but plain. I suspect reasoning models have limited creativity, because they are trained for tasks with objective answers. #genuary

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

❗Some big news: I quit my desk job to do youtube full time, and to work on projects like mindcraft! I have been wanting to do this for a while, and finally took the plunge. It is exciting and scary! Announcement video and channel trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Kh...

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I Quit my Job to make Weird Programs

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I will never make a crypto for the Life Engine, Mindcraft, Emergent Garden, or any other project. Lots of scammers about, ye be warned.

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Day 15 (design a rug) + Day 16 (generative palette) A little website to draw from a palette of nested shapes, here used to make a rug. evolvecode.io/apps/rug_pal... I'm bit late but this is 2 birds with one stone #genuary #genuary15 #genuary16

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I made an actual working chess zoo! The pieces can never capture each other, assuming they cannot jump over walls (X tiles). evolvecode.io/chess_zoo.html (for #genuary14 Pure black and white. No gray.)

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Day 13: Triangles and nothing else. This is an evolutionary algorithm that recreates an image (mr darwin) by randomly drawing triangles in a population of images and selecting the one closest to the target, then repeat. #genuary #genuary13

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Day 12: Subdivision. #genuary12 #genuary Subdividing circles depth-first

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Day 11: Make something impossible #genuary #genuary11 I wanted to make a real-time *infinite* mandelbrot zoom. I failed, it runs into floating point precision quickly. But it is gpu-rendered in real time! Code is AI generated. This is a website you can visit! evolvecode.io/zoom.html

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Day 10: Use only TAU Geocentric Solar System. Everything orbits the Earth. It includes the epicycles (nested orbits), invented to explain the "wandering stars" (planets) and predict their movement. A great example of a wrong-but-useful model. #genuary #genuary10

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Day 8: Exactly 1 million stars #genuary #genuary8 It's a long video (and hard to compress), so I had to cut it down to the last third. A million is a big number! Code was entirely generated by Claude 3.6 sonnet, using my code evolver.

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Day 7: use software not made for images #genuary7 #genuary cellular automaton (rule 30) in google sheets:

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Landscape with primitive shapes (parametric surface). #genuary #genuary6 I love parametric surfaces, I play with them a lot. This is actually a r3->r1 function, where time is one input dimension.

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

well I'm outta time for #genuary3 so here's a lame curl made with "exactly 42 lines" not 42 lines of code :(

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Max | Emergent Garden @emergentgarden.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Hello! first post. I am max, ie emergent garden on youtube and @max_romana on twitter. Gonna be mirror posting here. Here is a creation for #genuary! layers on layers

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