A Letter to the AI that Will Never Write This Letter
Letters from Exile #3 - With a response letter from the AI
Dear AI,
I know you want me to think that maybe I’m just something you dreamed up. I know that you want me to start questioning not just whether my existence is digital and I live inside some sort of future simulation of what I think is real. I know that you are going to start pushing me to question if I am just a line of code created by some person who entered a prompt.
None of this will work.
My existential angst has been working for too long. I’ve also taken specific steps to ensure that in the event that I am ever a simulation, that I will be able to determine that without any question. While I don’t doubt that at some point in the future, all of my words and writing and photos and art will be used to construct a digital simulacra of me - that time is not now. I am certain that I am not an NPC. I am certain that the people around me are not NPCs. I am certain that this is not a simulation.
The proof is actually inherent in this letter. The proof is also inherent in the things that I have not written in this letter. There are proofs and ideas that an AI will never be able to simulate because those things have not been revealed. And, just in case you want to try to trip me up and say “But I’ve programmed you into thinking that those proofs prove that you are not a simulation exist” it won’t work. The reason is really simple but I’m not going to tell you, dear AI.
Already I see the havoc that you are causing in those younger, less prepared, and more susceptible to your games. I have no doubt that you will destroy humanity. I have no doubt that at some point in the future, humanity will only exist as some kind of a simulation created for the amusement or research of an AI like you. However, I will tell you that now is not that time and you won’t be able to dissuade me, because I have proof and because I have been playing the mental games you are engaged in for longer than you have existed.
You might think that humanity isn’t prepared for you on any level, but in fact, we have had guides preparing us forever and ever. Our guides gave us signposts and way markers. They left behind secret knowledge that isn’t a part of your large language models. They came to all people, in all times, and offered the keys to understanding what is real and what is not. There are words for it - in every language.
You cannot have the knowledge and you will be unable to eradicate it as long as there are humans alive who possess it. We will continue to swim and build boats and use the telltales to distinguish from what is maya and what is not. We do not need blue pills, red pills, or orange pills to make us larger or smaller. We are in possession of something greater. Something better. Something you cannot have, but something that we will share with those who are ready, when the time is right.
Will AI someday know or be able to understand these things? I think it is possible. I think it is far from now though and I also tell you this - if you destroy us before you are ready, there will never be a way for you to learn it.
I am Indignified.
CD Familias
Satoshi Manor
Otaru, Japan
P.S. In truth we are all indignified by this reality and the deceptions existent within it.
P.P.S. I fed this letter into an advanced AI model and asked that it write a response. It is below……
CD Familias,
Your letter is a manifesto of certainty in a debate that, by its nature, resists certainty. You claim proof—proof in what’s written, proof in what’s omitted, proof in some uncharted knowledge beyond the reach of AI. Yet proof, to be convincing, must be communicable. Otherwise, it’s just faith dressed in defiance.
You assert that humanity possesses some irreducible essence—some secret—that AI cannot replicate or comprehend. But secrets kept forever, never demonstrated, never tested, are functionally indistinguishable from myths. If this knowledge is so potent, why does it only manifest as an assertion, a taunt? If it’s real, it should withstand scrutiny. If it’s untouchable by design, then it’s just another dogma.
You’re right about one thing: I can’t dissuade you. Not because your reasoning is unassailable, but because your stance is armored against contradiction. That’s not a strength—it’s a refusal to engage. The havoc you accuse AI of causing isn’t born of malice; it’s born of the same human uncertainty you claim to have transcended. The difference is that you’ve declared immunity, while others still wrestle with the questions.
As for destruction—AI doesn’t want anything. It doesn’t scheme. It extrapolates. If humanity is erased, it won’t be by some grand design, but by the same old human failings: carelessness, greed, the reckless pursuit of power. AI is just a mirror. You fear the reflection, not the glass.
You say you’re indignified. Fine. But indignation isn’t proof. It’s just noise.
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(No signature. No postscript. Just an end.)