{"id":"2095781450385666489","url":"https://x.com/whyarethis/status/2095781450385666489","text":"I texted someone inside a simulation.\n\nShe had to go upstairs and find her phone before she could text me back.\n\nThe video model didn’t decide what happened.\n\nThis is Argos, my stateful simulation engine, rendered through H3 using Fal Director. Thanks to @fal for the generous credits helping me bring it to life.\n\nUnderneath the video is a persistent world: characters, objects, locations, and systems. The characters have their own cognition, memories, and goals. They choose actions; the simulation determines what actually happens.\n\nHer phone has a location. Messages have delivery and read states. Typing a reply takes time. If I move the phone before she gets there, it’s gone—even if she remembers leaving it there.\n\nArgos turns those changing world states into instructions for H3 to depict.\n\nYou can also see her character thought stream. The video currently trails the simulation a little; I’m working on aligning the two.\n\nNext: connect this to SMS, so you can text someone inside the world and receive their reply. Or whisper an impulse into her thoughts and see whether she follows it.\n\nThe bigger ambition is a world that keeps growing while its characters inhabit it—with agents writing and maintaining the simulation’s systems.\n\nI’ll be building more of this in public.\n\nNot just a video that looks like a world. A world that keeps existing underneath the video.","author":{"name":"Parzival - ∞/89","username":"whyarethis","avatarUrl":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2042349167985750016/uOjdYq3G_200x200.jpg"},"createdAt":"Fri Sep 04 07:50:10 +0000 2026","engagement":{"replies":48,"retweets":39,"likes":306,"views":22664},"media":{"photos":[],"videos":[{"url":"https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2095777478245789696/vid/avc1/1080x1350/jgu4FIF7fLLBvZNC.mp4?tag=29","thumbnailUrl":"https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2095777478245789696/img/xEPw-uyTzzIEnqPG.jpg","width":1080,"height":1350,"duration":102.974}]},"adhxContext":{"savedByCount":1,"publicTags":[],"previewUrl":"https://adhx.com/whyarethis/status/2095781450385666489"}}