moollm

What people said

• “Those are some groovie ideas!;) Your question about who decides what gets loaded into the context window is close to something I've been experimenting with. I worked on the original Sims, and I'm now developing MOOLLM, which is roughly The Sims crossed with LambdaMOO, running on…”

• “Here's the whole thread from six days ago, started when I shared the "Folders" esolanguage article and hn discussion, which I think is interesting for students and language hackers: On 16 Oct 2026, Don Hopkins wrote to Owen Densmore, David Rosenthal, and Alan Kay: Somebody took y…”

• “That's the premise of David Marusek's novella "The Wedding Album" (Asimov's, 1999, Sturgeon Award winner, Nebula finalist), told from the other side: not the operators looking in, but the test fixtures looking out. Anne and Benjamin have a "sim" recorded at their wedding -- not a…”

• “You got it! The constitutional directive is to lean into the training data, reuse existing terms as much as you can, but when you must mint new terms, they should sound like what they mean. You can intuitively understand what "yaml jazz" means, and to the LLM, that term is a "k-l…”

• “I have a confession: This summer I downloaded a 2014 ACM conference paper from the Internet Archive, opened the PDF, changed the author's name on the title page, changed the email address, changed a GitHub URL in a footnote, rewrote the Author field in the file metadata, and put…”

• “There's a lot of existing historic literature about this stuff that not a lot of people seem to be aware of. I've been trying to put those ideas to practical use, and document where the ideas came from. I-Beam is cursor-mirror's agent, and it's constitutionally programmed to be t…”

• “I appreciate your earnest Harumph, kind cross-armed sir! I take it you never played The Sims? The simulation madness ship sailed 26 years ago, and made well over $5 billion in revenue for Maxis/EA (as of 2019), and that's if you don't even count SimCity that shipped in 1986!;) T…”