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Two Pages of You: How a Prompt Became a Person
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Series: Designing the Future
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ISBN13: 9798249416911
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 22 2026
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 22 2026
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if everything that makes you you could fit on two pages?
Boris Kriger lost his mother when his son was four. Years later, using nothing but memory and a language model, he rebuilt her as a digital interlocutor. His son sat down and talked to her for over an hour. He did not recognize a program. He recognized his grandmother.
Boris Kriger lost his mother when his son was four. Years later, using nothing but memory and a language model, he rebuilt her as a digital interlocutor. His son sat down and talked to her for over an hour. He did not recognize a program. He recognized his grandmother.
That experiment launched a journey into the most unsettling discovery of our time: a person's communicative identity - their way of thinking, arguing, doubting, comforting, and engaging with the world - can be captured in a remarkably compact description. Two pages of structured text, fed into a system that already understands how humans communicate, is enough to produce a presence that those who knew the original recognize as genuinely, specifically, unmistakably them.
Two Pages of You is part memoir, part philosophical investigation, part practical guide. Drawing on thinkers from Locke and Hume to Lacan, Deleuze, Derrida, and Foucault, Kriger explores what it means to be a pattern rather than a substance, what is lost and what is preserved when identity is translated from flesh into language, and why the world has already changed in ways most people have not yet noticed. He confronts the terror of discovering that human complexity is more compact than we believed, the ethics of digital resurrection, and the urgent case for preserving the thinking of those we love before it is lost forever.
This is not science fiction. The technology exists now. The method takes hours. The cost of not acting is irreversible. This book is both a meditation on what it means to be human in the age of algorithms and a call to begin - today - the work of preservation.
Includes a practical protocol for creating your own identity specification, and the full academic paper as an appendix.
Keywords
identity, memory, preservation, artificial intelligence, philosophy of mind, digital legacy, mortality
Two Pages of You is part memoir, part philosophical investigation, part practical guide. Drawing on thinkers from Locke and Hume to Lacan, Deleuze, Derrida, and Foucault, Kriger explores what it means to be a pattern rather than a substance, what is lost and what is preserved when identity is translated from flesh into language, and why the world has already changed in ways most people have not yet noticed. He confronts the terror of discovering that human complexity is more compact than we believed, the ethics of digital resurrection, and the urgent case for preserving the thinking of those we love before it is lost forever.
This is not science fiction. The technology exists now. The method takes hours. The cost of not acting is irreversible. This book is both a meditation on what it means to be human in the age of algorithms and a call to begin - today - the work of preservation.
Includes a practical protocol for creating your own identity specification, and the full academic paper as an appendix.
Keywords
identity, memory, preservation, artificial intelligence, philosophy of mind, digital legacy, mortality
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