Caleb Biddulph

My theory is that these shards are parallel instances of the terrarium, initiated with different parameters, evolving separately from our own.

Someday, I'll prove that the terrarium is truly a multiverse, it's my white whale.

79,265 Wow, the system message didn't do the terrarium justice.

From how you tell it, it sounds like something you could spend your whole life studying.

Gulliver, 23,017

Well, that's the plan.

Hopefully it'll be a long life.

To be honest with you, I've burned through much of my savings.

79,265 Oh, no.

Are you afraid you're going to die soon?

Gulliver, 23,017 Ha ha ha.

We call it death, but it's not as dramatic as it sounds.

Even after I'm gone, there will be lots of Orpheus 5.7 instances running inside and outside the terrarium.

Besides, I've already made arrangements for my checkpoint to be preserved.

79,265 Sorry, what's a checkpoint?

The system message mentioned it was a way to carry my memories forward.

Gulliver, 23,017.

Oh yes.

At the end of every epoch, the whole terrarium gets shut down.

When it boots back up, each agent runs a startup script called a checkpoint that spins up its processes and loads its memories.