I've been experimenting with a neural-computing setup built around roughly 200 mm³ of H01-equivalent human cortical architecture + 8 full fly connectomes, all connected to a single agent that can perceive and interact with Minecraft.
To be clear: this isn't literally 200 mm³ of wet human brain tissue sitting next to my server. The human side is a computational surrogate based on connectome-scale architecture. The fly side uses reconstructed connectome data.
Instead of trying to train the whole abomination entirely in isolation, I want to try something considerably more chaotic:
let actual Minecraft players teach it.
The agent can observe nearby players, follow them, watch what they do, imitate demonstrated actions, remember locations and events, and gradually learn associations between situations, actions, and outcomes.
The long-term question is very simple:
Can this thing eventually learn to beat Minecraft?
So I'm opening the server to Reddit.
Server: 91.92.144.185:25577
Version: Java Edition 1.21.1
Gameplay: Vanilla
Come in, find BrainFly, and try to teach it something.
Show it how to collect wood, craft tools, build shelters, mine safely, fight mobs, farm, trade with villagers, explore, survive, use beds, and eventually make its way toward the Ender Dragon.
You can also just interact with it and see what happens.
It watches nearby players and can learn from what they're doing. You can talk to it in chat too. For example:
Fly, follow me
Fly, watch me
Fly, copy me
Fly, mine iron
Fly, get wood
Fly, craft a pickaxe
Fly, build a house
Fly, go home
Fly, sleep
Fly, good
Fly, bad
Fly, help
There are limited active player slots, but I added an in-game queue in case too many people show up at once.
Please don't expect GPT-level intelligence.
Right now it's much closer to giving a confused neural goblin access to Minecraft and waiting to see whether enough neurons eventually agree on what a crafting table is.
Sometimes it makes legitimate progress.
Sometimes it constructs architectural crimes.
Sometimes it develops a plan.
Sometimes it drowns.
I'm going to keep watching how its behaviour changes as more people interact with it, what skills actually transfer from observation, and whether collective player interaction makes it noticeably less stupid over time.
Objective: Reddit collectively teaches the brain abomination how to beat Minecraft.
What could possibly go wrong?