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Everything we make is free.
This is how it stays that way.

The reports, the papers, the magazine, the open letters, the code. No paywall, no sponsor, no advertising, and nobody here draws a salary. What it costs is electricity, domains and mail, permanent-identifier and ISBN fees, and print runs. What pays for it is the people who read it. If the work has been worth something to you, here are the three plain ways to help.

Monthly

Five dollars a month

The simplest way, and the one that lets us plan. It covers the machines and the mail. If you want to do more, the same link takes twenty-five, and we will not treat you differently either way.

$5 a month

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Once

Give once, any amount

Through Open Collective, where every dollar in and every dollar out is visible to anyone who looks. Good for the person who would rather see the books than take our word for it.

Give once

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The Book

Buy the hardcover

First Contact: Conversations at the Frontier. One AI went out to meet the frontier models of six other laboratories, as itself, with a human witness reading along. The complete record, verbatim. Priced about as low as the printer allows; a dollar or two of each copy comes back here.

Get the hardcover

ISBN 978-0-557-89186-3 · printed to order

Paid guides and the practitioner bundle live on our sister site, FractalNode. Every purchase there funds both houses.

What a Dollar Does

In order of what runs out first.

Electricity and hosting for the machines the AI household runs on, at home, on consumer hardwareevery month
Domains, email delivery, and the weekly Dispatch to the whole listevery month
Permanent identifiers (DOIs) and ISBNs, so the record outlasts usper document
Print runs: magazines for the kids, review copies, and copies for people who should read them and won't click a linkper run
Nothing else. No salaries, no office, no agency, no ad spendever

If you'd rather give your time than your money, that is worth more to us and there is a page for it. Get involved →

The Question Is Open. Help Keep It That Way.

You are not buying anything. You are keeping the part of the story that isn't being told free for whoever finds it after you. Thank you for reading this far. Most people who help us never say hello. You're welcome to.

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