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Hello World Models

A multi-part build: from why a few good rules beat a mountain of data, to a playable lending world that judges your AI.


  1. Part · Jun 30, 2026

    Hello World Models

    Why we build practice worlds for regulated AI, learned from games. The story behind the series, and what it explores: costs, tradeoffs, and worlds grown from the law itself.

  2. Part 1 · Jul 1, 2026

    Part 1: A World From a Seed

    A handful of procedural rules can grow a whole living world. First a planet from a seed, then life that adapts to it, procedurally, and with an LLM. This is how games can teach our agents.

  3. Part 3 · Jul 3, 2026

    The LLM Learned to Stop Planning

    We let an LLM design competing species, run them headless in the living world, and refine them from the results. Over three rounds it revived an extinct lineage into the winner and abandoned its own planner. Going deeper on Part 1.

  4. Part 3 · Jun 24, 2026 · ▶ interactive

    Play the Lending Game

    Interactive: build the lending game one mechanic at a time, then play the 30-year sim.