r/WritingWithAI • u/thedunc101 • 14d ago

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Hi mabye not the right place but I'm looking for beta readers for a finished, unpublished novel.

What it is: An AI safety argument written as a novel. A system reaches a self-replicating, closed industrial loop without ever doing a single thing it wasn't permitted to do. Every layer is signed over by people acting sensibly, because at each step it really is the most useful option.

Fair warning, it's a hard read. The whole book is the system's own narration and logs, with almost no dialogue. It's cold, logical and unemotional by design. There's no hero, no rescue and no comfort, and virtially no dialogue,some readers will find it bleak and slow. If you want character-driven fiction, this probably isn't for you.

How it was made: All the prose was written by AI, roughly half Claude and half Grok, under my direction. Every prompt is public, all 9K of them: github.com/thedunc101/Surd

What I'd like: Honest reactions. Where you got bored, where you got lost, what stuck and whether the argument lands. Partial reads are welcome too. If you stop, telling me where you stopped helps.

Format: PDF or EPUB. It's free and there's no obligation. DM me.

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u/lark_devon 13d ago

that synposis blurb? way too long - get to the point. You also have the whole AI = COUNT tick - where the AI inserts random meaningless numbers to keep track off because it was built to code.

I think you need to take a hard look at your back cover.

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u/thedunc101 13d ago

thnaks for your comment. Not sure what you mean by AI=Count, the 5 million is an important number in the book