Jared Miller
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how/ - how things work (terrain generation, command system) why/ - design philosophy (telnet-first, text worlds) lessons/ - things we learned the hard way (charset vs mtts) Removes notes/ — DAYDREAMING.txt became DREAMBOOK.md, charset-vs-mtts expanded into docs/lessons/ with the connect_maxwait fix documented.
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from the dreambook, drawing on david jacobson's research at brandeis:
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narrow bandwidth doesn't impoverish experience, it enriches imagination. when
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you read "a torch flickers against wet stone walls" your brain builds a
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cathedral. VR hands you someone else's cathedral.
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text worlds are collaborative hallucinations between the author and the reader.
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the MOO community proved this for decades. LambdaMOO, MediaMOO, PMC-MOO —
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people formed real relationships, built real communities, lived real social
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lives through nothing but text on a terminal.
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presence isn't about polygons. presence is about engagement, attention, the
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feeling that you are *there* and that what happens *matters*.
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what the research showed
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- presence comes from engagement, not fidelity
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- identity is constructed through language (description, emotes, speech)
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- community forms through shared space and shared creation
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- the mask enables authenticity — removing physical cues lets people construct
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identity more deliberately. that's not deception, it's freedom.
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