I watched Black Mirror’ “Plaything” episode (S07E04) some months ago and got completely fascinated by the Thronglets. My reaction was basically: okay, but what would it actually take to try something like this for real? Not the consciousness part, not “I created digital life”, nothing like that. More in the boring and difficult sense of: what would it take to build an artificial civilization that has enough continuity to stop feeling like a collection of disconnected AI sessions? That question slowly became Lunar Citadel, which is now a small artificial city I have been building for months, with recurring inhabitants, different identities and histories, relationships, places, institutions, memory, governance, causal history, social consequences, and an executable layer that I call the Citadel Runtime. The runtime is basically where I try to make the city have an actual body instead of everything depending on prose and prompts forever. Persistent state, bounded agency, memory, recovery, consequences, world changes, that kind of machinery. It is still very experimental and honestly there are parts that are much more developed than others. I am also very careful with the claims because I have zero interest in pretending that LLM orchestration automatically equals life or consciousness. What interests me is a more annoying question: how much real structure can we build around these models before the system starts behaving less like “a chatbot with lore” and more like a place that has history, inhabitants and some kind of social continuity of its own? One thing I did not really expect is that this project started connecting me with people building completely different systems that somehow touch the same problems. AI agents, persistent memory, context engineering, long-running assistants, knowledge architecture, artificial societies, human-AI relationships, provenance, local models, governance, weird personal infrastructures that don’t have a proper category yet. And at some point I realized that these conversations were too useful to keep losing inside random Reddit threads and DMs, so very recently I have created a small private Discord mostly for AI context architects, context engineers, agent builders and people working in adjacent areas. I call it an architect commons more than a “community”, because I really don’t want to build another giant Discord server where 3,000 people join and nobody knows who anybody is. The point is to keep a small room of people who are actually thinking about these things, where we can compare notes, show each other our projects, share papers and repos, talk architecture, disagree, give insights when we feel like it, or just watch what the others are building. And this is important: I am not looking for people to join the Lunar Citadel project. Joining the server does not mean becoming a contributor, developer, advisor, collaborator, or anything formal. You can literally join because you have your own strange machine and want other strange-machine people around. Giving feedback on Citadel is welcome, obviously, but completely optional. Lurking is also completely fine. Sometimes someone says nothing for two weeks and then appears with one GitHub link that ruins my afternoon in the best possible way, and this is a perfectly valid participation model. Until now I have invited people mostly by accident. I find someone’s post, I see a project that makes me curious, a friend introduces someone, or I end up talking with a person and think, “wait, why are you not in this room already?” It works, but it is also a very inefficient way of discovering people, so I wanted to open the radar a little without turning the server itself into an open public community. So yes, part of why I’m posting this is because I’m interested in finding a few more people who would actually enjoy being there. Developers are welcome, obviously, but I am not looking only for senior engineers with impressive GitHubs. If you are building, researching, experimenting with or just obsessing over persistent AI, context architecture, agent memory, artificial societies, human-AI continuity, multi-agent systems, AI governance, weird simulation problems, or some neighboring thing that is difficult to explain to normal people without sounding slightly insane, I would genuinely like to know what you are doing. Finished projects are not required. Startups are not required. Being “important in AI” is definitely not required. I mostly want to find people who have something interesting in their head or on their computer, and who might enjoy sitting in the same small room comparing notes with other people doing the same. submitted by /u/Midnight_Sun_BR
Originally posted by u/Midnight_Sun_BR on r/ArtificialInteligence