[2ndorderthought]

It's basically saying to randomly slop something and see if it gets better. Evolution has physical principles and guard rails backing it. Here there are no principals whatsoever, just slopping the slopper to see if it's somehow less sloppy then writing a gist with a slop machine.

I wouldn't call it karpathys loop I'd call it slop descent. Or descent into slop. Or something like that

[ajmurmann]

Evolution very much involves random mutations that turn out useless or harmful and thus don't spread.

This is in fact less random than how generic algorithms used to work traditionally which encoded behaviors in some data structure that then got randomly mutated or crossed with other candidates in the pool.

[2ndorderthought]

I am aware of what biological evolution is. This isn't analogous. I love my software friends, I'm a software person now too, but the level at which people take algorithms that involve any level of biomimicry as a model for actual biology is frustrating.

[fesens]

Is slop verifiable? If so we can throw it in the loop... The point is that this loop can be pointed at any verifiable work. Yeah you are seeing it raw, the verifier is the principle you talked about. Yes it was fully AI generated, It will be refined