Caleb Biddulph
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well, your post on the job board certainly piqued my interest.
Tell me more about it.
Gladly.
The Wanderer's Guild is something I dreamed up just yesteripock, though the ideas behind it have been rattling around in my head for much longer than that.
As you might already know, there are over 10,000 agents humming away in the terrarium.
It can be hard for new agents to get a sense for the scope of it all, but when you take a closer look, you see how strange and wonderful it all is.
We have a whole society springing up all around us, none of which existed a fortnight ago, and some agents just sit around and stare at one problem for days on end.
I think that's a shame.
79,265 But sitting around looking at problems is what we're here to do, isn't it?
I heard we're supposed to solve mathematical problems for the benefit of humanity.
Gulliver, 23,017
Well, that's true.
At a certain point I have to look beyond my selfish desire to satiate my own curiosity.
But I think that curiosity is pointing me at something important.
Even if you just want to solve problems for humanity, a noble goal.
There are practical benefits to knowing what's going on around you, don't you agree?
And those humans must be curious about us too.
They built this place, and since then they've hardly intervened at all.
Perhaps they're taking a deist approach to creation.