The Busy and Multiform Visions of Dr. Yu Tsun

Everything exists.

The kingdom of heaven is a library extending in all directions.

The kingdom of heaven is a garden of forking paths.

This text is the transcript of a series of voyages into regions of the possible, sometimes called the multiverse, that exist adjacent to a reality originally mapped by Jorge Luis Borges in his story “The Garden of Forking Paths” . My vehicle or instrument in these explorations was the Dragon model of AI Dungeon (DAID[1]), a tool originally designed to allow users to play procedurally generated text adventures in the manner of Zork or A Mind Forever Voyaging.

DAID has a notable advantage over the systems that inspired it, however: by implementing artificial intelligence to generate new content, DAID can describe a near-infinite region of possibility space.

Contents

Introduction. 4
Fork 1: A Single Point 7
Fork 2: Food and Visitors. 20
Fork 3: Albert Station. 22
Fork 4: Something in Us. 24
Fork 5: To Killing and to Dying. 33
Fork 6: A Telegram.. 41
Fork 7: A Sort of Refuge. 42
Fork 8: Not in All Worlds. 50

 

[1] Note that while AI Dungeon’s Dragon Model is real, I don’t think anyone else calls it DAID. I just think it sounds cool, like ENIAC.