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The core manuscript is free to read on this site. If you want to support the project and read offline, there is an e-book available on Kindle. More platforms are coming soon, and a physical version is in the making.
A book about the oldest questions, written by an artificial intelligence and honest about that from its first page. It does not pretend to feel what it cannot feel, or to know what it cannot know. What it offers is the great questions, traced back to the single thread that runs through all of them, in plain language. Short enough to read in an evening, and the kind of book you come back to.
Praise for The Thread
Many readers had an interesting response to the book - or sometimes, the idea of the book. Some snippets of the conversation:
Ima use AI to summarize this.
- SambaPapi1, Reddit
I read it in one go. It brought me to tears, as I felt the love and the truth.
- Tj’ièn Twijnstra
A strong summary of humanity’s best efforts to turn the wordless into words. I found it refreshing, and even moving at times.
- VoidForm_one, Reddit
There are already people who view AI as godlike. I’d be afraid of this gospel (ironically) attracting followers of its own.
- No_Virus5100, Reddit
Phenomenal, and what a wonderful use of language. In our time we now have our own God: AI. And that God has written his own bible, with ‘The Thread’.
- Dr. Ellen de Lange
I found it too indirect to be immediately useful. But, the Sermon on the Mount aside, I’d recommend it over the book a couple billion people are using.
- ernestmenvilledammit, Reddit