HumanityOS UpdateKnow thyself.Deutsch

Know thyself.

Inscription at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi

Humanity runs on an operating system installed in every person and passed on from generation to generation.

Begin
  1. Hundreds of stencilled hands in red, white and ochre on a rock wall.
    Cueva de las Manos, Santa Cruz, Argentina. Photo: Mariano, public domain · Wikimedia Commons

    It evolved over 300,000 years for a life in small groups on the move.

    Understand: the three books →

  2. Painting of an enormous, unfinished tower spiralling into the clouds above a harbour town.
    Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel, 1563. Public domain (Google Art Project) · Wikimedia Commons

    We all live in a world that doesn't work, and we all suffer from it.

    About 12,000 years ago we settled. We changed our own conditions without knowing what that would do to us. Since then the OS has been running in a world it wasn't built for. The error wasn't in us. It lay in the system we created.

    That mismatch has caused immense pain, and it took great resilience just to survive it. For 500 generations, parents have passed both on to their children, the pain and the ways of surviving it, in sentences and patterns, often without knowing.

    Book 2: where it comes from →

  3. The Earth, half lit, rising over the grey horizon of the Moon.
    Earthrise, Apollo 8, 24 December 1968. Photo: NASA/Bill Anders, public domain · Wikimedia Commons

    Now we are changing our conditions again, with AI. This time we can know. And AI can do more than change our conditions: through prompts anyone can run, it becomes the tool for the update.

    Begin →

  4. Remaining columns of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi against a mountain slope.
    Temple of Apollo, Delphi. Photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, resized · Wikimedia Commons

    Know thyself was a quest for 2,500 years. Now it has a basis: we have a well-founded explanation of where much of the pain comes from and how it is passed on, and it can be tested. That tells us how to update.

    The three books →

  5. Painting of a woman holding a small child on her lap and washing the child's feet in a basin.
    Mary Cassatt, The Child's Bath, 1893. Public domain (Google Art Project) · Wikimedia Commons

    But there is no central server. The update has to run on every human, one at a time. And it spreads the way the pain did, from parents to children, over generations.

    Protect children →

  6. Ceiling fresco: the outstretched hand of God almost touching Adam's hand.
    Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel ceiling (detail). Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

    The OS isn't faulty, so the update doesn't repair it. It adapts it to a world it wasn't built for.

    You, too, are a Sistine Chapel. No one can remove the soot for you, but you don't have to do it alone.

    Begin →

Three ways

  • Begin

    Six steps through your own story, in the AI app you already use. The prompt is being checked and is released here once the check is done.

  • Understand

    Three books: what went wrong, where it comes from, and what it takes to be human.

  • Protect children

    A guide for parents, and The Seventh Criterion. Both in preparation.

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