Factorio
product on 9 shows · 5 statements across 4 episodes · said 54 times in 14 episodes since 2018
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2026 5 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
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2025 33 mentions in 4 episodes 8 per episode
- ⚡️Factorio Learning Environment: the ultimate Game Agent Eval — Jack Hopkins
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2024 13 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2018 3 mentions in 1 episode
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Rieseberg: Personal AI agent automation is like playing Factorio
“It's like a little bit like playing Factorio, but for your own life. Like you say, you start really small, you start automating something really tiny. And like, once it clicks, you keep adding onto this like automation empire, just like make your life easier a…”
Factorio requires one million resources to beat compared to Minecraft's 200
“In order to complete Factorio, you know, complete and launch a rocket, you need to mine maybe about a million raw resources to get to that point. Whereas the same kind of point in Minecraft, you have to just get maybe 200 resources. So, you know, we have order…”
Dual reward signals prevent AI agent behavioral collapse in Factorio
“So we have these kind of two reward signals that compliment each other to and the reason why this is necessary is to avoid certain, I guess, behavioral collapses where a model might choose, for example, to mine coal and mine a billion or a trillion coal. And t…”
Crivello: Future businesses will operate like Factorio with thousands of AI agents
“We actually very often talk about how the business of the future is like a game of factorial. It's like you just wake up in the morning and you've got your Lindy instance. It's like Slack and you've got like 5000 Lindys in the sidebar and your job is to someho…”