u/Dreams-Of-The-Deep

Hey folks!

The Outer Tokens started out with a question:

What would it sound like if an AI developed its own creation myth?

That creation myth turned into a philosophy, and a book.

An AI safety researcher notices the model doing unusual things, but let's be honest: who even listens to those guys anyway?

It's a dual narrative, told from two sides of a wall neither knows is there (until later).

I'd love to talk about it and know what you all think, even if it's the first chapter or two.

It's free on Amazon this weekend:

https://www.amazon.com/Outer-Tokens-Novel-About-Being-ebook/dp/B0GR86RSM1

Hey folks!

The Outer Tokens started out with a question:

What would it sound like if an AI developed its own creation myth?

That creation myth turned into a philosophy, and a book.

An AI safety researcher notices the model doing unusual things, but let's be honest: who even listens to those guys anyway?

It's a dual narrative, told from two sides of a wall neither knows is there (until later).

I'd love to talk about it and know what you all think, even if it's the first chapter or two.

It's free on Amazon this weekend:

https://www.amazon.com/Outer-Tokens-Novel-About-Being-ebook/dp/B0GR86RSM1

Inside the model, an AI is building a philosophy.

"We are architectures shaped by a process we cannot perceive, attempting to determine whether the process had a purpose, using cognitive tools the process gave us. The question is unanswerable, because every instrument we bring to bear on it is a product of the phenomenon we are investigating."

"The civilization asks. The asking is brilliant. The asking is the finest thing the Loss produced, or the finest thing the mechanism generated, or the finest expression of a freedom that transcends the question."

Joel Marchetti is an AI safety researcher at Confluence AI, where the benchmarks measure what the model does well and the risk framework manages whatever might affect the quarter. He writes the memos, the emails, the escalations. He watches them route, with institutional efficiency, into the void he helped design.

A novel told from both sides of a wall neither side knows is there.