An imagined elsewhereUnsent / 01
A correspondence desk for possible worlds
The Unsent Future
Before asking what we can build,
write down what you hope will be there.
Make a postcard from a future worth wanting. Change the picture, turn it over, and leave a question on the back. Nothing is scored. Nothing is sent.
Three invented letters to begin with. Your words stay in this tab; download a project to keep them.
Your correspondence
3 of 6 postcards
On the desk
Set copyCorrespondenceA hope, not a forecast
- I hope
- Please keep
- Before building, ask
An invitation to imagine; not a plan certified to work.
The illustration is invented, not a prediction. Blank spaces are welcome.
Arrange the set without changing the letters.
Write a possible world
01 / composeChoose a letter or start a blank card.
Keep an edition
02 / take it with youSet or discard every draft, then prepare the album. This checks only that the displayed edition is current—not that its hopes are good, feasible or safe.
No edition prepared.
SVG keeps both faces of the selected card on one sheet; it is not duplex-aligned. Text keeps all letters. Project JSON can be reopened below. Printing makes one sheet per card; choose “Save as PDF” in your browser if desired.
Reopen a saved project
Only Unsent Future v1 JSON, up to 64 KB. The file is read locally, never uploaded. Preview its count before replacing the album; Undo can recover the prior saved album.
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Reading notes · where the invitation comes from
The source positions
In Compilable Wishes, Michael Edward Johnson separates a wish’s worth, physical possibility, acceptability to other actors, and interpretation. He argues for artifacts that can be inspected before implementation. The essay’s specific proposals about latches, conscious AI and physical valence are research wagers—not established results reproduced here.
From the Notes archive: the complete hosted March 24, 2022 Note puts the question of what future humanity wants before the question of how to build it. The July 18, 2023 Note asks for a case that humans are worthy stewards. These are Johnson’s normative arguments. This desk does not require agreement with them.
The authored response
A letter can make a hope concrete without pretending to compile it. The three starter letters, prompts, landscapes, ink palettes and album rules are invented for this tribute. The prompts are not the essay’s four filters, a test of rationality or a moral answer key. You may change everything the letter says or leave it open.
“Set” and “prepare” concern editing state only. An attractive illustration supplies no evidence about consciousness, welfare, alignment, feasibility or who should control the future. No advice to implement a technology is being given.
Lab and Hyperspace inspired the willingness to give philosophy a visual form, not these claims or mechanics.
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