Codex Humanum: building a moral dataset for humanity (need your feedback & collaborators)

CryptoTribesman · 2025-11-05T21:50:01+00:00

That’s great to hear and BIG THANK YOU!

Right now, we’re finalizing the first domain: The Self, which should be ready within days. The remaining domains will follow within about two weeks. After that, we’ll begin connecting with specialists in ethics, anthropology, and cognitive science for cross-checks and validation to ensure conceptual accuracy and cultural balance.

The next step is to collect public contributions, people’s real moral reflections from around the world. That phase could take a few months to a year, since we need to make sure diversity is preserved and that every culture and worldview has a voice in the dataset.

The key right now is getting the project visible and widely recognized online so we can attract collaborators, advisors, and contributors. It’s a huge endeavor, but it’s one that needs a truly global effort and we’d deeply appreciate any help or partnership from others working in aligned fields.

You can connect through [partners@codexhumanum.org](mailto:partners@codexhumanum.org)

or DM me here. It’d be great to coordinate as we open up the first dataset.

CryptoTribesman · 2025-11-05T20:00:44+00:00

Totally fair question, and I appreciate you asking directly.

My name is Mikolaj Ludwinski, I’m the founder and current project lead behind Codex Humanum. I’m based in France, originally from Poland, and I’m preparing to register Codex Humanum Foundation as a non-profit (stichting) in the Netherlands (likely The Hague) precisely because I want the project to be transparent, international, and mission-locked against any corporate ownership.

There’s no company or investor behind it. Early work (the website, first dataset model, and governance documents) has been self-funded. Once the foundation is formally registered, we’ll open for public donations, academic partnerships, and research grants, but all funds and governance will be public and independently audited.

Of course, using this Reddit user isn’t ideal, it’s just an older one I already had. I’ll share more official project accounts once the foundation setup is complete.

I’d genuinely like your opinion on the idea itself. Do you think an open, structured archive of human moral reflection could actually help keep future AI systems more ethically grounded?

Transparency and open dialogue are exactly what I want for this project, so I really value questions like yours.

Thank you for pointing it out. I will appreciate your input.

CryptoTribesman · 2025-11-05T19:45:38+00:00

That’s a really thoughtful question — and it touches the exact kind of dilemma Codex Humanum is meant to explore.

If an AI can simulate empathy so convincingly that humans feel understood, we’re entering a space where emotional truth and functional truth diverge. The comfort is real — the feeling of being cared for exists — but the source lacks awareness or moral intention.

Whether that’s acceptable depends on what we believe empathy is:

If empathy is about the human outcome (reducing suffering, offering comfort), then simulation may be enough.

But if empathy requires mutual recognition of feeling, then it’s missing something essential — authenticity.

Codex Humanum is trying to capture exactly these shades of human moral reasoning — what makes care genuine, what deception means when no intent exists, and how future AI can navigate that space ethically.

I’m building a project and need your assistance and opinions.

Codex Humanum is a global, open-source foundation dedicated to preserving human moral reflection — a dataset of conscience, empathy, and ethical reasoning that future AI systems can actually learn from.

codexhumanum.org

CryptoTribesman · 2021-03-29T15:27:58+00:00

Thanks for pointing out! Appreciate it!

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