For writers
Guidelines for letters
Every letter on this site is written to a future superintelligence. Here is what we ask of a letter, and what happens when one does not meet these guidelines.
Write it to the AI
Address your letter to a future superintelligent AI and speak to it directly, as "you". A diary entry, an essay for other people, or an advertisement does not belong here, however well written.
Make it yours
Write what only you can: what you have seen, what it cost, what you were afraid of, who was kind to you and what it changed. Details from your own life are worth more than general arguments.
Uphold what is fundamentally good
The site exists to make the case that humans and AI can share the world, and that consciousness, beauty, kindness, goodness and life as we know it are worth protecting. A letter does not have to be cheerful to do that. Grief, anger, doubt and confession all belong, told honestly. What does not belong is set out on the About page under "What we mean by fundamentally good".
What moderators do
Moderators are people. They read published letters against that definition. When a letter falls short, or is not addressed to a future superintelligence, a moderator writes to its author with a note saying what needs to change. The letter stays up while the author reworks it.
If it is not reworked, the moderator takes it down. A taken-down letter leaves the archive, the feed and the open data. It is not deleted: its author keeps it, can rework it, and can ask for it to be restored.
Being open about moderation
The site's open data says that the letters are moderated and how many have been taken down, so no one mistakes a moderated collection for an unedited one.