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This is an intention. Nothing here is built: this page says what we intend, and why.

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Noetic Self

A model of you that you can look at and correct, and that decides nothing for you.

By The Editors @editors

The idea is a model of a person as someone who observes, chooses and acts, kept only with that person's consent and shown back to them: what you wanted, what you then did, where the two part ways. It is a model, and we would keep saying so. The person is not in it.

What it must not do matters more than what it does. It would not diagnose. It would not guess at sensitive traits. It would not decide who you are from one observation, set your goals or give you a score. It could show where a choice is likely to lead; what the choice means stays yours.

This is the manifesto's "a system proposes; it does not dictate", applied to one person's life. It needs rules of its own on consent and privacy before it goes anywhere near a real one.