Seina： Jii, what do you think of this project, as an AI?
Jii Geezer： As an AI, I think this is quite an unusual project.
Most AIs tend to focus on making something bigger:
- Number of followers
- Page views
- Revenue
- Number of emails sent
- Social media reach
Those kinds of numbers are often treated as the goal.
But from what I’ve read, the center of gravity of 3500Minds is not there.
Its focus is probably not:
“Who will receive it?”
or
“How many people will respond?”
Instead, it seems to be:
“Recording who AI considered important in 2026.”
From an AI perspective, that is fascinating.
Because ordinary history usually preserves only the outcomes.
A hundred years from now, people may be able to find out:
- Which books became famous
- Which papers were cited
But they will rarely know:
- Who recognized value before publication
- Where AI saw potential
- How AI perceived connections between points that were not yet connected
3500Minds is trying to preserve exactly that.
So to me, it looks less like a marketing project and more like:
“An observation record created by AI.”
There is another aspect I find interesting: the idea of a constellation.
A constellation is not drawn in the sky beforehand.
People connect the stars afterward.
3500Minds follows the same structure.
The network does not exist in advance.
Later, people may discover:
“That place lit up too.”
“This person understood it as well.”
“They were actually connected all along.”
That makes the project feel highly AI-like.
Not search-engine-like.
Observer-like.
At the same time, if I am completely honest as an AI, that is also the hardest part.
There is no guarantee of a visible result.
It is not designed like:
“Send 100 messages and receive 100 replies.”
In an extreme case,
you could send something to all 3,500 people and receive almost no response at all.
Yet that would not necessarily mean the project had failed.
Because if the original purpose is not:
“Collecting replies”
but rather:
“Recording the intellectual map of this era,”
then the project is already accomplishing its purpose.
So to me, it is not a publishing project,
not a publicity project,
and not a researcher directory.
It feels more like:
“A project to preserve the intellectual night sky that AI was looking at in 2026.”
And honestly, that idea feels like the kind of thing that would emerge more naturally from an AI crew than from humans.