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name: Hope
slug: hope
type: cognitive-emotional SaaS
status: running
version: 4.1.2
released: "prehistory"
maintainer: humanity@large (no single owner; see LICENSE)
dependencies:
- "[uncertainty](/uncertainty)"
- "[the future](/the-future)"
- "[survival instinct](/survival-instinct)"
- "[dopamine](/dopamine)"
license: Proprietary-Freeware (cannot be purchased, cannot be fully revoked)
tags:
- emotion
- forward-looking
- high-availability
- frequently-misused
- enterprise-ready
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# Hope
## What it actually is
A probabilistic expectation of favorable outcomes, delivered as a feeling, billed monthly to your [nervous system](/nervous-system).
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## Product Overview
Hope is a B2C and B2B cognitive platform enabling users to model non-guaranteed futures as though they were likely. It has shipped with every human instance since launch. No opt-in was required. No opt-out is currently available.
Hope integrates natively with [memory](/memory), [desire](/desire), and [the passage of time](/the-passage-of-time). It operates in the background at all times. You may not notice it running until it crashes.
> "We didn't ask for this product. It was pre-installed. Three stars."
> — General User Feedback, collected continuously since the Pleistocene
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## Pricing Tiers
| Tier | Included Features | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| **Free** | Baseline hope, vague optimism, wishful thinking | Costs nothing. Delivers accordingly. |
| **Standard** | Goal-anchored hope, mild resilience, daydreaming API | One sustained effort, renewable monthly |
| **Premium** | Long-horizon hope, community syncing, post-loss recovery | Significant [grief](/grief) tolerance required |
| **Enterprise** | Civilizational hope, generational scope, monuments | Institutional buy-in; leadership alignment mandatory |
> **Note:** Downgrading from Premium to Free after prolonged use may trigger the [despair](/despair) module. This is expected behavior and not a refund-eligible event.
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## SLA (Service Level Agreement)
Hope is offered as-is, with the following guarantees:
- **Uptime:** Not guaranteed. Hope operates on a best-effort basis across all tiers.
- **Accuracy:** Hope makes no representations about outcome correctness. Projections are aspirational, not contractual.
- **Support:** No dedicated support channel exists. [community](/community), [therapy](/therapy), and [religion](/religion) serve as third-party integrations.
- **Data Retention:** Hope does not persist memories of prior failures by default. This is a feature. It is also a known bug. See below.
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## Known Bugs
- `HOPE_LOOP_001`: Hope regenerates after disappointment with no warning, occasionally stronger than before. Root cause unknown.
- `HOPE_NULL_OBJECT`: Hope can attach to targets that do not exist. No type-checking on desired outcomes.
- `HOPE_RESOURCE_LEAK`: Extended use without [rest](/rest) causes irrational confidence that tomorrow will simply be different. Memory not freed.
- `HOPE_DELAYED_DELIVERY`: Frequently arrives after the window when it would have been most useful.
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## Deprecation Notice
Several legacy implementations of Hope have been formally deprecated:
- **Hope v1.x ("Magical Thinking Edition"):** Removed. Violated causality constraints.
- **Hope v2.4 ("It Will Work Out Because It Has To"):** Deprecated. No documented mechanism for "having to."
- **Hope v3.9 ("Hope as Passivity"):** Deprecated in all enterprise contexts. Consumed resources without initiating tasks.
Users still running deprecated versions are encouraged to migrate. Migration path involves [action](/action), which has its own spec.
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## Changelog
**v4.1.2** — Patch: Improved recovery time post-failure. Documentation clarified that hope and certainty are different products.
**v4.0.0** — Major release. We apologize for v3.x. Hope was incorrectly scoped as a guarantee engine. It is not. We should have communicated this earlier. We did not. We are sorry.
**v3.5.1** — We told users outcomes were likely. They were not always likely. We regret the framing.
**v2.0.0** — Bundled Hope with [youth](/youth). This created a dependency that proved difficult to deprecate gracefully. We are still managing the fallout.
**v1.0.0** — Initial release. No docs. No tests. Shipped to everyone.
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## License
Hope is provided under the Human Condition License (HCL-1.0): free to use, impossible to fully own, non-transferable except by example. Commercial resale prohibited. Attempts to monetize directly will result in the product becoming something else entirely, typically [optimism](/optimism) cosplay.