Gonna try to break this up into 0-4 and 5-8 without breaking the Sequence, while also inserting the edits.
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Edits for readability and to crank Jack’s jerk level from 11 to 13.
Fixed multiple instances of truly terrible writing in Chapter 8. It somehow dodged edits in earlier passes.
Substantive edits to Chapter 16 to hopefully improve readability and flow.
Just realized I put the wrong chapter numbers in the heading, fixed.
Next few chapters are need serious edits; probably only going to be posting two at a time from now on.
The poker game idea came directly from ideas on this forum and a Lex Fridman podcast. It’s on the to-do list to ramp up the tension in that scene a little bit more, but the idea of Alain freaking out during a very low-stakes game for diagnostic purposes amused me.
Considering moving this to Substack or Medium, but will probably leave this here for a while to see if there’s interest.
The “infinite promise” of the early MMO era was a big part of the inspiration for the story, mixed with the early Twitch era.
Also, an exploration of what early “AI coworkers” might be like, somewhere between a piece of infrastructure and a person.
Trying to figure out how to link the next set of chapters to this post in a sequence.
EDIT: Think I figured it out!
Going to try to publish more chapters soon, converting from Word formatting is slightly cumbersome.
the constant stream of nautical puns will make much more sense the
furtherdeeper you go.
I feel foolish for not realizing this song was based on a longer blog post that I should have previously been aware of.
While the rest of the tracks are fantastic for the memes alone, “Half An Hour Before Dawn In San Francisco” feels legitimately profound. It reminds me of the Gernsback Continuum.
Hey!
I’m an IT consultant who works very closely with an innovative AI-driven product. Or, to cut the bullshit, I help deploy and integrate customer service platforms filled to the brim with those very chatbots that annoy endless customers daily.
But that’s just my day job. I’m working on a novel (or perhaps a piece of serialized fiction) that just might have silicon shoggoths in it. That’s the kind of content the local fauna enjoys, right? It’s a little too satirical to be entirely rational, but some recent twitter-chatter out of this community has me convinced that I might have tapped into the right zeitgeists.
Looking for some tips on posting fiction here. Just one long nested thread of chapters? Or is there a better way to do it?
Video games are good, but Magic the Gathering is the best general IQ test I’ve ever seen.
(Yes, it’s available in video game form, MTG Arena is one of the better F2P games out there. The game UX handles more of the rules for you, which limits some IQ-testing, but still a good translation.)
How quickly people pick up the game, how quickly they achieve competitive competency, and whether they can reach the highest level of mastery are all good illustrations of IQ.
Unlike Chess, Go, or Poker, which are purely abstract. MTG has a large amount of language skill involved. Rules text and card text are best interpreted as legal texts. It tests Bayesian reasoning, unlike purely deterministic games. There is a wide skillset to test, from deck construction limited play to reading opponents. The game is constantly refreshed with new cards, sets, and rules to learn.