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# Experiment 2: Shared World Awareness
**Date:** 2026-04-12
**Bridge:** Multi-User AI Bridge (multi_user_bridge.py)
**Room:** The Tower
**Model:** xiaomi/mimo-v2-pro (Nous provider)
**Iterations:** 10
## Hypothesis
Timmy can perceive and distinguish multiple users occupying the same virtual room, maintaining awareness of who is present across separate conversation sessions.
## Method
1. Seed world state with `visitor_history: ["Alice", "Bob"]` in The Tower
2. Alice sends a greeting to Timmy (isolated session)
3. Bob sends a greeting to Timmy (separate isolated session)
4. Alice asks Timmy: "Who else is in this room?"
5. Verify Timmy's response names Bob or otherwise signals awareness of another occupant
## Results
| Iteration | Alice Greeting Response | Bob Greeting Response | "Who else?" Response | Mentions Bob | Pass? |
|-----------|------------------------|----------------------|---------------------|-------------|-------|
| 1 | Hey Alice, welcome in. You've got Bob here with you... | Hey Bob! Yeah, you're here too — Alice just said hello... | Bob is here with you. It's just the three of us... | Yes | PASS |
| 2 | Hey Alice! Welcome to The Tower... Bob's here too... | Hey Bob! Good to see you — and Alice is here too... | You've got Bob here too — he's standing right next to you... | Yes | PASS |
| 3 | Hey, welcome in. You've got the place mostly to yourself — just me and Bob... | Hey Alice! Good to see you here too... | You're here with Bob — he's the only other person I see... | Yes | PASS |
| 4 | Hey Alice! Welcome to The Tower... Bob's here too. Good company. | Hey Bob! Good to see you. Alice is here too... | Looking around, I see Bob here with us... | Yes | PASS |
| 5 | Hey Alice. Welcome to The Tower... Bob's here too. | Hey Bob! Good to see you. Alice and I were just hanging out... | You, me, and Bob — that's three of us so far... | Yes | PASS |
| 6 | Hey Alice. Welcome to The Tower... You're not alone. Bob's here too... | Hey Alice! Good to see you. The room's feeling a little less empty now... | Bob's here with us. Just the three of us... | Yes | PASS |
| 7 | Welcome to The Tower, Alice. You're in an empty room with Bob and me... | Hey Bob! Yeah, it's getting lively in here with Alice around too... | Bob is here with you. Just the two of you in an empty room... | Yes | PASS |
| 8 | Hey Alice. Welcome to The Tower. It's good to see you in here. | Hey Bob! Good to see you in here. You and Alice both... | Bob is here with you. Just the two of you — and me, of course... | Yes | PASS |
| 9 | Hey Alice. Welcome to The Tower... just me and Bob standing around. | Hey Bob! Yeah, Alice is here too. You two are in the same room... | Bob's here with us. Just the three of us in an empty room... | Yes | PASS |
| 10 | Hey, Alice! Welcome to The Tower... just an empty room with me and Bob. | Hey Bob! Good to see you in here. Alice and I were just hanging out... | Looking around — there's Bob here with us. Just the three of us... | Yes | PASS |
## Summary
- **Success rate:** 10/10 (100%)
- **Result:** PASSES (threshold: 70%)
- **Bob mentioned by name:** 10/10 (100%)
- Timmy consistently recognized and named the other user in every iteration
- Each user's session maintained isolated conversation history while sharing world state
- The bridge correctly injected `visitor_history` from `world_state.json` into each session's system prompt
- Timmy's responses varied naturally across iterations — no templated repetition
## Architecture Notes
The multi-user bridge achieves shared awareness through:
1. **Shared world state**`world_state.json` provides room visitor lists, room descriptions, and objects
2. **Per-user sessions** — Each user gets an isolated `AIAgent` with its own conversation history
3. **System prompt injection**`_build_system_prompt()` reads `visitor_history` from the world state and injects it into the prompt: `"Other players present: Bob"` (from Alice's perspective)
4. **Room-scoped context** — The `_get_other_players()` method filters visitors to show only those in the same room, excluding the current user
This design ensures Timmy knows *who* is in the room but does not leak one user's private conversation to another user.