Project reconstructs 120 historical minds to ask: how would they build AGI?
MarwaEldiwiny · x · 2026-08-15
David Vivancos launched the "Encyclopedia of Lost Minds," reconstructing 120 historical figures from Gilgamesh to Imperial Rome.
The project serves as a thought experiment: if these minds were alive today, how would they build artificial intelligence? Each entry features an interactive 3D mind-map of the thinker's worldview and a runnable neural architecture blueprint they might have designed. The first six hardcover tomes are now available.
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