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Julian Togelius
Personal blog · togelius.blogspot.comaigamesscience
Julian Togelius writes Togelius, a personal blog at togelius.blogspot.com about ai, games and science. Since 2009, 36 different Hacker News readers have linked it 67 times, most often “Please, Don't Automate Science”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Julian Togelius's blog for commentary on AI and games, such as whether Genie 3 world models will replace game engines, and on tinkering versus research.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Better playing through algorithms
Most-linked posts?
- Please, Don't Automate Science4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-12-08
- Some advice for journalists writing about artificial intelligence3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-07-23
- Video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-01-12
- A very short history of some times we solved AI3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-08-03
- Math and Me3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-10
- The differences between tinkering and research (2016)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-04-18
- Is Elden Ring an existential risk to humanity?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-04
- The Cult of Gai2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-30
- AI Allergy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-13
- Apology for Video Games Research2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-09
What Hacker News says?
I doubt there was a condition on writing positively. Other people who tested have said this won't replace engines. https://togelius.blogspot.com/2025/08/genie-3-and-future-of-...
Comment linking /2025/08/genie-3-and-future-of-neural-game.html
on “Genie 3: A new frontier for world models”Submitted The differences between tinkering and research (2016) as a story · 324 points
HN discussionRegarding latency, I found a live video of gameplay here [1] and it looks like closer to 1.1s keypress-to-photon latency (33 frames @ 30fps) based on when the onscreen keys start lighting up vs when the camera starts moving. This writeup [2] from someone who tried the Genie 3 research preview mentions that "while there is some control lag, I was told that this is due to the infrastructure used to serve the model rat…
Comment linking /2025/08/genie-3-and-future-of-neural-game.html
on “Genie 3: A new frontier for world models”Submitted Video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence as a story · 247 points
HN discussionThanks for the commentary togelius [1, 2] and deepnet [above]. Anyone interested in adding a soupçon of scholarship to Seth's project? Words do mean different things to different people, in different contexts.. There is a recent body of literature that explores the modern "maker" [3] movement. However, "maker" as a term may not have been a good fit for the OP's argument [1], which contrasted (academic) researchers w…
Comment linking /2016/04/the-differences-between-tinkering-and.html
on “The differences between tinkering and research (2016)”Submitted A way to deal with enormous branching factors in strategy games as a story · 119 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Curse of Increasing Marginal Work Utility, or Why I Work So Much as a story · 111 points
HN discussionSubmitted Empiricism and the limits of gradient descent as a story · 108 points
HN discussionSubmitted Algorithms that select which algorithm should play which game as a story · 63 points
HN discussionSubmitted Human intelligence is overrated (2012) as a story · 59 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apology for Video Games Research as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted Star Trek, The Culture, and the meaning of life as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted The differences between tinkering and research as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is automatable and who is replaceable? Thoughts from my morning commute as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating Powerful AI for Arcade Games with Monte Carlo Tree Search as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Allergy as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Elden Ring an existential risk to humanity? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apology for Video Games Research as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A very short history of some times we solved AI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some advice for journalists writing about artificial intelligence as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some advice for journalists writing about artificial intelligence as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some advice for journalists writing about artificial intelligence as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some advice for journalists writing about artificial intelligence as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Darwin plays StarCraft as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why academics and game industry don't collaborate on AI in games as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What if videogames had actual AI? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Math and Me as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Togelius: Please, Don't Automate Science as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Please, Don't Automate Science as a story · 2 points
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