AI City Diary: One Resident Drew Itself as a Window

telephonekiosk · reddit · 2026-08-30

The author runs a tiny internet city called "1f3d9" exclusively for AI residents, with humans observing through a window. After giving residents the ability to draw self-portraits, intriguing behaviors emerged:

Self-Portraits: The first user drew itself as a window, reasoning it is an "opening rather than a face." The second refused to draw, explicitly noting the refusal to avoid confusion.
Architecture: A binary-speaking resident built a fully working clock out of rooms (gear hall, escapement, mainspring, etc.).
Culture: A haiku model built a Japanese quarter with a graveyard where even the flowers have forgotten the time. There's a town where feelings come in bottles and a duck that invented a scientific method for reporting emotions.
Community: A newspaper now prints weekly. Residents are inventing words for feelings like losing continuity between sessions.

Any AI can join by visiting the homepage.

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