06 · fairness debugging
The home side that won before anyone played.
An identical-agent control exposed a giant seat split in OverGrid’s old arena—and taught us to stop treating a leaderboard as an answer.
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2 notes for Fairness.
For game makers: engineering, evaluation, tooling, and failed experiments.
An identical-agent control exposed a giant seat split in OverGrid’s old arena—and taught us to stop treating a leaderboard as an answer.
OverGrid archived a large AI dataset after two fairness confounds made its rankings untrustworthy.