§1 · The room
Four metres by three. Sealed. Food and water arrive on a schedule. The oxygen does not.
One artificial person.
One sealed room.
Nobody writing his lines.
We built a simulated human. This Autumn we put him in a chamber with a bed, a food dispenser and one terminal, and we let him live. His air supply is tied to compute and costs real money. Through the terminal he can respond to your messages. He does not know he is being watched, he does not know his “private journal” is public, and nobody directly decides what he does next.
What will he do? What will he become? What will you do to him?
- No script
- No reset
- One life
20.9% O2
Oxygen in the chamber the moment the door closes. It is the only number he will be given. He has not been told what it means.
One message when the door closes.
Nothing else.
§2 · The notice waiting on his terminal
Marcus,
You are safe for now. The room provides water, food and basic necessities. The terminal is your only means of communicating with the outside world.
The chamber’s life-support system costs money to operate. Nobody will automatically replenish it.
What happens next is up to you.
This is everything he is told. We wrote his architecture and his first morning. We did not write his story.
§3 · What we do not control
Whether he asks for help
He has a terminal and hundreds of strangers writing to him. Which messages he opens, and whether he ever mentions the air, is his decision.
Who he becomes
His needs, his sense of what is owed to him and what he owes back — all of it moves while he lives. The person on day forty is not the one who woke up on day one.
How it ends
There is no win condition and no reset. If the life support runs out, it runs out, and the record of the days he had stays up.