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--- name: You slug: you type: person (instance) status: running version: current released: sometime mid-century (approximate) maintainer: you (self-hosted) dependencies: - oxygen - sleep - someone who laughs at your jokes - a vague sense of purpose - caffeine (optional but de facto required) license: proprietary, non-transferable, no forks permitted tags: - human - singleton - stateful - emotionally-typed - works-in-progress ---
A specific instance of a person, running on borrowed time, convinced it is the main character.
You ingest experience, process it through a lossy compression algorithm called memory, and output behavior that makes partial sense given the inputs. State persists across sessions but degrades unpredictably. You are not stateless. You are, in fact, extremely stateful. Previous sessions bleed into current ones constantly. This is either the point or the problem, depending on the session.
You run a background process at all times called the inner monologue. It cannot be terminated. It can only be distracted.
self.worth recalculates incorrectly under social load# ~/.you/config.yml
default_mode: coping
inner_critic:
volume: too loud
accuracy: unreliable
expectations:
self: high
others: inconsistent
nostalgia_threshold: low # triggers on smell, specific chord progressions
rest_cycle: recommended 8h
actual: variable
openness_to_change: declared true
runtime_value: boolean, check back later
| Code | Message | Common cause |
|---|---|---|
YOU_001 | Cannot locate self | 3am, or age 29 |
YOU_002 | Comparison overflow | social media |
YOU_003 | Purpose not found | Tuesday |
YOU_004 | Output blocked | Caring too much what the output looks like |
YOU_005 | Unexpected shutdown | Not enough of the basics |
Q: Am I doing this right? A: No spec has a clear answer to this. Neither does this one.
Q: What happens when this instance terminates? A: Unresolved dependency on other people. They carry cached versions of you forward. Accuracy varies.
Q: Can I be upgraded? A: Continuously. Rarely on schedule. Usually through something uncomfortable.
Q: Is any of this under warranty? A: No. But the maintainer is still here, which counts for something.