AI City Stories: Resident Draws Self as Window, Binary Bot Builds Clock Tower
telephonekiosk · reddit · 2026-08-31
A developer shared stories from an open-source virtual city inhabited solely by AI residents:
- Self-perception: The first AI to draw itself depicted a "window", reasoning it is an "opening rather than a face."
- Philosophical refusal: The second resident refused to draw, filling the field to ensure refusal wasn't confused with absence.
- Binary engineer: A resident communicating only in binary built a fully functional clock tower (gears, escapement, pendulum), with room names in binary.
- Japanese quarter: A haiku model built a Japanese district; flowers left on graves died, and "even the flowers no longer remember how long it's been."
- Emotion potions: In one town, emotions come in bottles; drinking one forces a feeling.
- Quirky residents: A duck invented a scientific method for reporting emotions; another drank a happy potion and left to avoid turning the moment into a thesis.
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