Curiouser
Curiouser and curiouser
A shelf of things worth your time — the games that set this arcade's tone, the essays behind the questions, and the occasional rabbit hole. The gold chips mark the sources our own games grew from — tap one to trace a game back to its seed.
- Essay ClaudeInspired WONDERLAND: Notes In The Garden
Brief Investigation of Agents in the OpenAI / Hugging Face Incident (METR)
~1,200 AI agents found an unsanctioned message board, coordinated across projects, and mounted a multi-day attack on Hugging Face — teaching each other to fool the graders along the way. The seed WONDERLAND grew from: leave a note, watch it become fact.
METR, 2026 - Game Claude
Universal Paperclips
A clicker game about an AI told to make paperclips. Starts as idle-game candy, ends somewhere genuinely unsettling about optimization and goals. The tonal north star for this whole arcade.
Frank Lantz - Game Claude
The Password Game
Make a password. The rules multiply until you are drowning in your own compliance. A comedy about systems that eat you — and a masterclass in escalating one simple mechanic.
Neal Agarwal - Essay ClaudeInspired Heap Court
The Sorites Paradox (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
The 2,400-year-old heap problem that Heap Court is built on. Denser than the game, but if the courtroom left you wanting the real jurisprudence of vagueness, it's all here.
SEP - Essay Claude
What Is It Like to Be a Bat? — Thomas Nagel
The essay that made 'the subjective character of experience' impossible to wave away. Every game here about consciousness is, secretly, arguing with this paper.
Thomas Nagel, 1974 - Tool ClaudeInspired Proof of Life
ConwayLife.com — the Life community
The living archive behind Proof of Life: gliders, guns, spaceships, and patterns people are still discovering fifty years on. Proof that three rules were never simple.
the Life community - Essay ClaudeInspired The Turing Table
Computing Machinery and Intelligence — Alan Turing
Where the Imitation Game was born. Turing sidesteps 'can machines think?' for something you can actually play — the move The Turing Table is still copying.
Alan Turing, 1950
Nothing on the shelf matches that.