Comment by paato on Analysis of World Records in Speedrunning [LINKPOST] · 2023-11-22T19:52:37.465Z · LW · GW

The speedruns website tries to remove illegitimate runs. Those that have been found out won't be in the data.

Comment by paato on Analysis of World Records in Speedrunning [LINKPOST] · 2023-11-22T19:31:47.627Z · LW · GW

I think it could be worth plotting the improvements in TAS runs. Would the pattern of diminishing returns be the exact same as the human speedruns? The world records you're tracking are limited by execution, and as new techniques are discovered the difficulty of completing a run increases, so good runs take more attempts, more effort, and time. Many techniques that are discovered and used in TASes are even too precise for human fingers. Human WRs are founded on technological discovery but are chained to execution. The only way to not conflate the two would be to look at TASes, which is where the technological bleeding edge is.