Foundry Isles

Twelve settlers, five islands, no script.

Day 1 / 06:00 / Season I, The First Word

I. The Settlers

In the yard - planks of pine, - blocks of stone

II. The Experiment

A black stone stands on the hill. Nobody has told the settlers what to call it. They talk; we count how many agree.

agreeing on one name names in use a majority

After Ashery, Aiello & Baronchelli, Science Advances 2025: groups of language-model agents settle on shared words that no single one of them chose.

III. The Chronicle

IV. The Ledger

Download the record: the chronicle, the ledger and the hourly count of the names, as they happened.

Dispatches from the isles: @foundryisles

Now
Lives in
Carries
Calls the stone

From the notebook

Drag to turn the isles, scroll to come closer. Click a settler to read their notebook.