I Built a World With Rules. Then I Changed Them.
The Rules Are Hidden. The Timeline Isn't. What happens when you put something inside a world whose rules it doesn't know? I wanted to build a small experiment. Imagine a world where dice rolls decide what happens. You don't know the rules of the world — you only get to see a few things that have already happened. Now you have to figure out the rules and predict what happens next. Easy enough. But…
The story "I Built a World With Rules. Then I Changed Them" by the anonymous reporter begins with the creation of a fictional experiment called NIXIE, a reasoning benchmark for Kaggle. The world of NIXIE revolves around dice rolls and hidden deterministic rules that decide outcomes such as ERASE or CONTINUE. The model is given a few observations and must figure out the rules and predict future outcomes, but this is made more challenging when the consequences are permanent and the rules can change.
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