Well, there's the Wired article for starters:
www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...

It's not a panacea. Teaching biology didn't solve all medical controversies, this won't solve all AI problems. But it lets you understand what is actually going on with the things affecting your life.

It kind of makes sense to me: it represents words as vectors, so it just finds the nearest vector that conveys roughly similar meaning in context.

...except holy shit we can turn words into vectors and do math on them according to their contextual meaning?

So it wraps back around to being eerie.

Sounds familiar.
Was it called minus?

I'm just saying that humanity has specifically been training for millennia for the eventuality of encountering alien intelligences that follow their own sense of reality and keep promises even when you don't want them to.

Some of you would definitely take fairy gold and be surprised when it turned to leaves in the morning.

But overall I think it is very genre-dependent, because a necessary tutorial in one genre is a puzzle-spoiling walkthrough in another.

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Playing off Koster's theory of fun, learning how to play is often the fun part of the game, so teaching the player too much too directly can suck all the fun out of the game. It's a balancing act!

Systems suspense games require discoverability. You can have a wiki-heavy game (Dwarf Fortress) or a heavily tutorialized game that uses it (Stanley's Parable) but in general I suspect they tend towards a lighter touch.

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My central belief is that if you can induct the player into the core ritual of the game, everything else is a bonus. What's your core loop?

As long as the player has a sense of what they can do next and where to look for information about what to anticipate, they can learn the rest as they go.

Games you expect to continually consult the wiki (e.g., Minecraft) have taken some steps for more discoverability, but Minecraft's in-game tutorialization is achievements.

Some markets you expect to have minutes at most to get the player onboard (f2p mobile games, etc.) so it makes sense to rush.

Like, I think I'm seeing several categories:
- Knowledge games
- Wiki-reference games
- Onboarding games
- System suspense games
- Any others?

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So I think you want Hal Clement, then. Mission of Gravity, etc.

As mentioned, Ander's The City in the Middle of the Night is literally climate fiction on a tidelocked planet, so probably also counts.

Forward's Dragon's Egg is set on a neutron star, but otherwise fits.

For some things it'd be cool to be able to do the tool call completely inline; it's theoretically not a hard technical challenge to wire up a calculator as part of inference, but since it takes both training the model and editing the inference I haven't seen an implementation.