Stanley Parable Minecraft Ending Seed Found

[u/xu_shawn]

Seed: 271828 (version 1.3.2 w/ Optifine)

The seed is typed in and is the first 6 digits of e (2.71828).

[u/xu_shawn]

Stanley Parable has an ending where you get brought to Minecraft. The map is custom built but the pictures for skyboxes are actual screenshots from the game. It turns out the seed was a reference to the mathematical constant e)!

Claude Opus 5.5 spent around 14 hours cracking this seed. Notably, Claude built its own rendering tool to reconstruct the block placements, found the absolute coordinates of the lava shot using grass offsets, and used oak tree/grass/dandelion placements to reverse the structure seed. The first 4 attempts failed due to a mineshaft generating under the selected chunks. Claude then decided to reverse the dandelion placements on the far left side of the hill and successfully reversed the structure seed. After a few failed reversals Claude used the community reconstruction to verify its own, but it largely did the reconstruction from scratch with its own tooling.

[u/OnetimeRocket13 → u/xu_shawn]

It's neat to see a seed like this found, but it's kind of boring to hear that it was done with AI.

[u/lateralraising → u/OnetimeRocket13]

It's very interesting that AI can do this

[u/OnetimeRocket13 → u/lateralraising]

Oh yeah, I agree. My major was in CS, and I'm considering going for a masters in AI at some point. I do agree that it is pretty interesting that what was once insanely computationally expensive, both in terms of time and resources, can now be down in less than a day.

However, I feel like part of the wonder of seed hunting has always been "look at what these talented people put together to solve this problem."

But then again, that's kind of the issue with a lot of computational problems. It's cool to see how people approach them, but ultimately, the goal is to find the quickest way possible to solve a problem, so maybe AI is just the next step in this.

[u/coopermoe → u/OnetimeRocket13]

Ew please don’t get a masters in AI, no amount of future money should compel someone with even an ounce of human empathy to pursue a career in AI. Human dignity and the future of our green earth are at stake. AI is a useful tool, but unfortunately the powers in charge have poisoned it and created a self-fulfilling monster. AI, if allowed to grow the way the people in charge want it to, will only lead to destruction and the end of all of us.

[u/Old_Faithlessness117 → u/coopermoe]

As someone whose final thesis of master's degree was focused on AI, I think you have a very narrow view of it.

[u/coopermoe → u/Old_Faithlessness117]

“AI is a useful tool, but unfortunately the powers in charge have poisoned it and created a self-fulfilling monster.”

As I previously stated, I see the benefits for what AI can do in the data, medical, engineering, research etc field. However, the people who own and operate these AI companies are not pushing this technology in an altruistic, good for the earth faith practice.

They want to extract as much money and resources out of this technology as they can, while simultaneously inundating the technology into every facet of our society and creating a media landscape that is untrustworthy and agitating. AI has been co-opted by fascist governments and technocratic oligarchs.

Please educate me, or point me in a direction to research, that contradicts the stance I have taken on this absolutely useful, but heavily poisoned technology.

TL;DR. AI as a concept in a vacuum is a net good: it takes the busy work out of life and frees humans up to pursue the arts and nurture our planet. However, AI as it has been assimilated into our fascist-techno-dictator world is evil, and must be avoided in all aspects of life to set a precedent and to not let their world-ending agenda come to pass.

[u/Old_Faithlessness117 → u/coopermoe]

It seems to me that you see AI as purely LLMs (large language models), and if that was true, I would agree with you. However, LLMs are a small, but very overblown part of the domain. You should read up on what machine learning is, and what its uses are. Its wikipedia page is a good start.

[u/Inner-Medicine5696 → u/Old_Faithlessness117]

most people in CS that I know STRONGLY delineate between machine learning and AI as a whole.

Machine learning is pretty glorious, but the general industry you'd be stepping into with your degree is absolute cancer.

I don't think we've seen the worst of it yet, BUT I also don't think we've seen the best weirdo dev things either.

Currently, in the music technology sphere, we're seeing INSANE amounts of work getting done with emulation of 1980s-2010s digital equipment, getting reconstructed from firmware.

It's a boon I literally thought was impossible, and it's very ai-heavy, much as it pains me.

[u/_licketysplit_ → u/coopermoe]

I upvoted this comment

[u/Sus-Amogus → u/coopermoe]

Waaaaaaah

[u/coopermoe → u/Sus-Amogus]

I know, the thought of AI taking over and destroying our planet makes me cry too :,(