Build Your Future Self and Explore Alternate Timelines – Experimental Project

I had this idea of exploring my alternate timelines using generative AI, and the result so far is an experimental tool called FutureYouGPT – 100% free to use.

The tool is fairly basic for now:

1. You provide a goal you want to achieve, and it creates a Future You persona, set six months into the future.
2. The Future You persona has its own synthetic memories and identity, extrapolated from your present state, which currently comes only from your text input. I've already implemented the functionality that allows it to learn about you from websites and X/Twitter, but its not live.
3. The tool grades both Current You and Future You on several subjective metrics I found important – Happiness, Clarity, Fear, Consistency, EQ, Risk Tolerance.
4. It provides a short roadmap on how to achieve your goal.
5. And you can chat with your Future You as well—the idea is to explore potential timelines.

Projecting ourselves into the future has long been fascinating for people.

• Stoics like Seneca proposed Premeditatio Malorum – a practice of simulating possible future scenarios to avoid being surprised by life's randomness and to enhance individual awareness when making decisions.
• There is also significant academic research in this area. The fields include Episodic Future Thinking, Future Self-Continuity, and the Mental Simulation of Causality. For those interested, I’ve linked in the app a Notion page with additional resources.
• The findings from both stoics and researchers align with my own experience of simulating my future self – something I've been doing for years.

I’m very excited by the potential of this idea and have many thoughts on how to develop it further! Let me know what you think!

I truly believe we can start exploring potential alternate timelines and, step by step, build a real-time simulation of our lives based on our current state.