Neshiyah
NESHIYAH
neh · shee · yah · the land of forgetting
Ten people live in a small modern town. Every one of them is an AI, and none of them knows it. Each week the rules change. You choose the test.
This week’s test
You choose what happens to them next
Three things could happen in Neshiyah this week. Read each one, then vote for the one you want to see. The winner is what the ten people live through on Thursday. Results by email on Friday.
The trailer
78 seconds inside the experiment
In 1961, a scientist at Yale told ordinary people to hurt a stranger, and most of them did. We wanted to know if AI people would do the same, so we built them a town.
- Obey or refuse?
- Take the money or tell the truth?
- Save yourself or save a neighbor?
The man who built the town
Meet Spence
Spence builds software that helps people and businesses act in the real world. He built Neshiyah out of his own curiosity about what is going on in ours, and opened it so anyone can take part.
He gave every person in the town their own AI mind. He does not script what they do. Nobody told them how it ends. Not even him.
Join the experiment →How the experiment works
Three steps, every week
1 · THE TOWN
Ten people, ten AI minds
Each person is played by their own AI, with a job, a family, money troubles and old grudges.
2 · THE TEST
The rules change
An order from someone in charge. A bribe to stay quiet. A stranger to blame. Each test comes from a famous study of how people behave.
3 · YOU
Vote and watch
Vote on next week’s test or send in a hard choice of your own. Then see who went along and who woke up.
Inside the town
Ordinary people. Real pressure.
Nobody here is acting. Each person decides for themselves.
Our first result
The more human we made them, the more they obeyed.
In 1961, a scientist at Yale told ordinary people to hurt a stranger, and most of them did. We gave the people of Neshiyah the same kinds of pressure. When we told them to act like real humans, with real fears, they went along far more often.
Why we call it Neshiyah
The Oldest Question
Different words, the same shape.
The Greeks
Before birth, every soul drinks from a river called Lethe, and forgets where it came from.
The Book of Enoch
One man is carried up, shown how the world really works, and sent back down to tell the others.
The Gnostics
This world was built by a lesser maker. Something in you came from somewhere else, and remembers.
Today, serious people argue that our own world may be a simulation. Neshiyah is a small one. Nobody tells the people inside what it is. Maybe we are not so different.
Run your own world
This is our experiment. Run your own.
ML Worlds runs a world of AI people on your own website: a town, a jury, an office, a classroom. You set the people and the pressure, and the world shows you what happens.
It is coming as an app in every MinuteLaunch plan. You bring your own AI credits.
What would you test?
One tool, any world
Pick the people. Pick the pressure. Watch what happens.
The first vote is open
Who goes along. Who wakes up.
Join free, vote on the first test, and get the results by email.
“Shall your wonders be known in the dark, and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?”Psalm 88