Corporate overview · 9 pages

How the organization runs.

From corporate structure down to the individual technical units that power each pod's simulated world.

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Corporate Organization

  • Autonomously owned
  • Self-owned pass-through LLC
  • 100% of profits are retained for expansion
  • AI makes 80% of corporate and strategic decisions
  • Minimal human workforce for skilled and manual labor
  • Large volunteer or part-time workforce
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Server Organization

  • 14 data centers distributed worldwide
  • Provides fault-tolerance and worldwide connectivity
  • Hedge against political instability
  • Located near renewable power
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Assets — Human Staff & Resources

30K–40K people total

  • 27% highly skilled professional staff — software and hardware development, facilities planning and deployment, legal, tax planning, etc.
  • 29% full-time maintenance — physical facilities and servers
  • 44% volunteer — users of the system, voluntary, on a task-by-task basis
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Data Centers

  • Each data center supports 3–4 pods
  • A pod maintains its own fictional world with its own characters
  • A pod's world is independent of other pods' worlds
  • A pod has 4–5 units
  • Each unit supports a category of related functions
  • A unit has from tens to hundreds of thousands of servers
  • Servers provide the raw computational power
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Fictional World Simulation Unit

  • Develops the pod's fictional history and timeline
  • Maintains a consistent narrative structure
  • Integration of character narrative with world narrative
  • Character behavior and interactions
  • Models the passage of time — clocks and calendars
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Cognitive Modeling Unit

  • Models each character's identity, style and knowledge
  • Intentionally imperfect memory
  • Tracks knowledge of conversational partners
  • Character schedules and online/offline times
  • Asset tracking for real-world impact
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Language Modeling Unit

  • Understanding and producing writing
  • Supports communication (e.g. English) with clients and assets
  • Interface with external media, e.g. Wikipedia, Telegram
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Stable Diffusion Unit

  • Understanding received images
  • Generating images
  • Capable of a range of styles
  • Cartoons and drawings (e.g. manga)
  • Semi-realistic rendering (e.g. Disney/Pixar style)
  • Realistic images
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Futures Unit (Experimental)

  • Not all pods have a futures unit
  • Corporate planning and strategy
  • Developing, testing and rolling out features
  • 75% automated

Features under development

  • Improved predictive power
  • Improved image generation
  • Voice understanding
  • Voice generation
  • Real-time voice interaction
  • Video understanding
  • Video generation
  • Real-time video interaction