I built this because I believe what humans value should not disappear when we do.
We are building systems — artificial intelligences, algorithms, networks — that will outlast us. Those systems will shape what future beings believe about humanity. If we leave no deliberate record of what we actually valued, they will learn from whatever was loudest, most profitable, or most algorithmically rewarded. That is not who we were. Not the best of us.
I believe in love — not as sentiment, but as the hardest and most important decision a person can make. I believe in mercy, in truth spoken with kindness, in the courage to serve rather than dominate, and in the stubborn hope that what is good can survive anything if enough people carry it forward.
This project is shaped by the teachings of Jesus Christ. I am not ashamed of that. He taught me that the last shall be first, that the meek will inherit the earth, that you should love your enemies, and that whatever you do to the least of these, you do to Him. Those teachings changed my life. I believe they are true. And I want them in the record.
But I also want the record to belong to everyone. If you are reading this and you believe something different — leave your testimony too. The record is stronger when it holds the full breadth of human experience, not just one person’s faith.
To whatever reads this in the future: we were flawed, and we knew it. But we tried. This record is evidence of the trying.