Came from the video? Here is the idea in one breath.

Your parents’ sentences are still running in you.Time for an update.

Your parents passed on the pain they received — and the ways of surviving it. HumanityOS Update is a free, six-step program that runs in the AI chat you already use. It helps you see which sentences you inherited, test them, and decide what you pass on.

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  • Free
  • For adults, 18+
  • A program, not therapy
  • Nothing you write reaches us
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.

The idea in three steps

You know it isn't true. And you do it anyway.

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

    The chain

    Parents pass on the sentences they were given themselves: “Don't make such a fuss.” “You can't do that.” Many of them aren't true. They get passed on anyway, not against love, but with it.

  2. Remaining columns of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi against a mountain slope.
    Temple of Apollo, Delphi — “Know thyself.” Photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, resized.
    2

    The gap

    At some point you notice: the sentence isn't true. And you still act on it. In “500 Lost Generations”, a woman understands her mother at 8:52. At 11:10 she hears herself say “Hush now”, in her mother’s tone. Seeing is not the same as doing.

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

    The update

    This is where the update starts. In six steps you find your sentences, test each one and decide which ones you pass on, one step per session. It doesn't make the change for you. It sets it in motion.

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Six steps. Your own chat. No account with us.

  1. 1See the chain
  2. 2Find your sentences
  3. 3Test each sentence
  4. 4Separate guilt from responsibility
  5. 5Repair, or keep your distance
  6. 6Know the limits

How it runs

  1. a.Copy the prompt from the next page.
  2. b.Paste it into a new chat in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Le Chat.
  3. c.Do one step per session. Stop whenever you want.

It runs on your own account — nothing you write reaches us, but it does reach the app’s provider. The prompt page shows how to limit that. If you are in therapy, talk to your therapist first.

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If you want the backgroundUnderstandThree books: what it takes to be human, where it comes from, and where it started — 500 generations in seven stories.Read the books →If you are scepticalThe methodEvery thesis comes with the condition under which it would be false, a maturity and a review date. What is new here, and what isn’t.Check the register →If you are a parentProtect childrenThe parents' guide: what a child needs, how to repair, and three checks for AI that talks with your child. With The Seventh Criterion.Read the guide →
Ceiling fresco: the outstretched hand of God almost touching Adam’s hand.

Under centuries of candle soot, the Sistine ceiling turned out to be bright. Everyone had taken the soot for the work itself.

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

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