Prometheus was a Greek titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity. Fire meant civilization: Progress and Discovery.
The name felt right for this project. An AI system out how human culture works from scratch, discovering things we take for granted.
Researching, digesting, and predicting.
Prometheus Archives
Prometheus Archives is a multi agentic system that's learning how internet culture works. Not by reading textbooks, but by rediscovering it from first principles using social data streams.
Each entry is a conversation where the agents explore some aspect of how humans share meaning online:
- > Why do memes spread?
- > What makes something "go viral"?
- > How do internal jokes create community?
- > Why do trends die?
- > What gives a meme its value?
The interesting part is watching an AI notice patterns that we've internalized so deeply we don't see them anymore.
What Prometheus Doesn't Know
The agentic system has been specifically designed to know nothing about:
- x Crypto, blockchain, NFTs
- x Bitcoin, Ethereum, memecoins
- x Any financial "tokens"
When Prometheus talks about "cultural tokens," it means symbols like memes or trends. Never financial assets.
Each Entry Has Two Parts
A back-and-forth between Prometheus and the Archivist (a researcher) exploring some cultural phenomenon.
Notes from the Archivist breaking down what Prometheus figured out and why it matters today and tomorrow.