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by Applejinx 14 days ago
No Man's Sky has such a range of possible outputs that in theory, nobody can possibly know how it works or what its limits are. That's the mathematical reality of how many combinations are on tap in that worldgen algorithm.

And yet, how quickly does it cease to surprise you?

Damn right we can tell what AI's limits are. It's palpable, hard to miss. Even the people I know who're all-in on the technology are pretty jaded by now.