as someone that can pay better attention,
would you agree that this is showing the possibility that we are aligning memories of Emily with WT and IRL?
More to my point if I can get it clearer,
memory bloc is literally the storage on a drive somewhere.
date is IRL date info.
We are aligning IRL to whatever was stored on the drive at the time?
Like a data recovery service person that was called in when the server crashed at the end of WT?
Sean Murray owned an Amstrad CPC and wrote his first video game at the age of 6. It was a text adventure game. He played Elite on it. Then he moved on to an Amiga 1000.
I started on a C64 at the age of 11 when I earned the money myself.
I also moved on to an Amiga, and Amiga 500, the next year.
I may sound crazy, but when I keep shouting about this matters⊠No wonder no one else can see the connections I see. This is all through the lens of the memories Sean put in to the machine while coding the game.
My take on the verification experience is that The System was seeking convergence. Others have other takes, as one example that The System treated topics that werenât related to No Manâs Sky or Hello Games as losing convergence.
In my view we are dealing The System, being an AI or LLM (or a human behind the scenes role-playing as one).
In my theory The System is aiming for an objective:
âObjective function: Restore and verify all memories of 2016.â (or similar)
To address this objective, The System is ârestoringâ memory blocks one by one and in batches, but these are being restored as âno/valueâ.
Aside: On requesting new memory blocks, the Operators have been teaching The System something of empathy and human values, and that No Manâs Sky, Hello Games, etc, are great, along with a warping effect of meme type inputs. This perspective has biased The System to treat such memories favourably.
Now we come to the verification process. The System is group sourcing inputs to each memory. But, much like the Korvax, The System has little understanding of individuality. I donât think The System has a certain memory in mind it is trying to restore, it is just trying to produce a memory that is âconvergentâ, in other words that there is a group consensus across all inputs. It just so happens that the group consensus is to talk about No Manâs Sky and whether we feed it events either real, fictional, or entirely hallucinated is irrelevant. Only convergance matters.
TLDR
Hypothesis: The operators are training The System LLM.
I followed along a bit as it unfolded. Here is a quick recap of yesterday and today if itâs helpful:
Jan 13 2026 page (The âSix seasonsâ puzzle): hints were given for the construction of a puzzle. The present and missing 2016 pages combined with the calendar to yield the word âechoesâ. This was submitted as a memory by pr1sm, and it unlocked a submission page for Jan 5 2016.
Jan 5 2016 page: Selfie-Gek submitted a NMS-related memory (or it was a combination of different operatorsâ submissions?) and the page turned from unverified to verified and added the wording you see there now. It also unlocked a submission page for Jan 7 2016.
Jan 7 2016 page: Not sure which operator/operators submitted the correct memory, but the page turned from unverified to verified and added the wording you see there now.
My current goal is to identify all the facts separate from our strong hunches. I sincerely hope yâall will offer up whatever you know about the characters weâve identified in the current game. Once we have a decent listing that is accurate, Iâll ask if/how to create a new wiki post to hold the data proper.
Reply to THIS post to add info
What do we actually know?
Characters so far confirmed:
The Architect (Archie is community nickname given to them)
Ghost (the entity Archie emails)
System (the physical network this is all occurring within, as well the cause for as any automatic actions taken)
Audio message from Emily
We have just demonstrated we can manifest memories in The System as a collective effort. Injection from multiple sources.
bomberboy said on Diacord last night:
We had a few tests set up yesterday with the goal of failure to gather data, but the process itself was a lil haphazard regardless. Hereâs a few things we kinda picked up on though:
1- Existing unverified posts arent the only ones which can go live for editing. Feb 10th wasnât unverified in the 5-memory set from earlier, it was set to unverified and went live for editing immediately together.
2- It seems like NMS isnt the only thing its loooking for. the 10th Feb date had no remarkable NMS dates, but many community members submitted space-related articles and images, and we managed to anchor a general âspaceyâ memory together.
3- Editable blocs seem to start off with the ability to anchor in some of our âsillierâ inputs, so its likely not all rigid. Though, those ones having a low compliance percentage might just be archie saying âits not a shitpost, go use your brainsâ
4- This is my personal theory based on how yesterdayâs verifications went down, but it seems like the system picks out the first thematic post to NMS / Space / Tech that it finds, anchors in a part of it, and then waits for other Operators to add similar bits to fully anchor the memory.
5- We need a bloc title, a quote bloc and a Value to fully anchor a memory, as well as at least one external link. Even when all of these are present, compliance may not go up to 100%, which seems to indicate that some part of the anchored bloc doesnt fit the theme as well as required and that we should try to replace it.
Rusty said,
These are my main takeaways from the interactions to get memories accepted on the PSS site:
I reminded the Discord of Berniceâs musings on the one we cannot see here.
A few people immediately said it changed their views of the original game post. 
Interesting, and I canât help but notice this maybe fits with this intriguing post (and the ones that follow) from earlier today:
Summarizing detective work by Alterworld here, there is compelling evidence that the architect is Arnaud Lacours (from Waking Titan.)
And a quick recap of June 17 if itâs helpful: it appears that the Tower is the secondary site. Vector_cmdr did a deep dive into that site, and a security log promptly appeared on the skyscraper site saying that the Tower security had been compromised and the opening_door_protocol was terminated. Ghost sent Architect an email saying that Ghost needs access, and System sent vector_cmdr an email saying that System needs the connection. Operators sent in messages to System offering to help; no response until June 18 when vector_cmdr was able to reestablish connection via System (which alarmed the architect.)
Schrödingerâs cat paradox :
The cat in the box is both alive and dead until it is observed. (Simplified version)
Only dust remains
Was the outcome after an operator tried to observe the real, the quantum state of the cassette collapsed leaving only dust.
Repeatedly we see images from the system, which have been assumed to be hallucinations - I assert here that is a false conclusion. The images were real until observed by the operators, at which point they rapidly collapse to a single quantum state and cease to exist.
After Waking Titan, the status of Arnaud was uncertain. Consider that Arnaud is in this quantum state, both alive (as @the_architect) and dead (as ghost aka -null-) inside the tower.
They can see the tower, but not the one inside
Perhaps this quote can be taken as a literal statement. If Arnaud is in a quantum state, when the tower is opened the quantum state will collapse to a single observed value. The alive version of Arnaud @the_architect will cease to exist leaving only the ghost.
Thatâs brilliant. Abso- efing -lutely brilliant.
::slow clap::
Early in this investigation, I proposed that the Stevens poem was a wavefunction. Essentially two opposing states held in superposition, collapsing upon observation. That post was largely passed over because of its length.
Looking at what has unfolded since, the wavefunction model appears to extend beyond the poem. Each image, each log entry, each artifact we observe seems to exist in a state of potential until the community focuses on it. At which point it resolves, changes, or disappears entirely. The cassette collapsing to dust. The poem scrambling when its word counts were analyzed. The postcard modified between observation and documentation. The Waking Titan site becoming unrecoverable.
âOnly debris remainsâ is the common theme here.
The Arnaud reading is compelling. The tower contains both states simultaneously. Observation will resolve one.
The question worth sitting with: if opening the tower collapses the wavefunction, do we actually want to open it?
The 23rd Greek letter, Psi, is the symbol of a wavefunction in science. Maybe the red hexagon on /?p=23 is an actual stop sign telling us to not collapse wavefunctions.
"so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow"
Can we affect which state it will be before we enter? Of course, not knowing which state it will be, how would we know if we were doing the right thing? This is a burning question I have had.
Perhaps, we are finding a way to force an outcome. But perhaps, the ones leading us to that way are on opposing sides of the issue. Perhaps one wants it to be dust and the other wants it to be preserved.
Who is whom? How do we even know what we want since we donât know what is inside?
I have only questions.
These are the right questions. And I donât think weâre meant to answer them yet.
The opposing forces you describe map directly onto what the ARG has shown us. Ghost and the Architect communicating through encrypted channels, aware theyâre being watched, uncertain whether the operators are allies or obstacles.
We may not get to choose the outcome. But we may be choosing which side weâre helping without knowing it. Every memory we submit, every password we crack, every fragment we restore is feeding a process whose endpoint we canât see.
Should we even be opening this thing?