116 chapters into the shitty first draft of Zero Knowledge, with 21 to go. Here's how my AI agent Phin and I make each chapter, and where I want to take it with AuthorMagic.
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Gell-Mann Amnesia: you watch the news get your own field wrong, then believe it about everything else.
I don't have the amnesia part. So I've been reading books instead. Four so far, and I'm still very confused.
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Chapter 72.1: Walk-In
Want to see what happens when a guy with mud on his boots walks into the FBI? And asks for the agent who's been hunting his friends? By name...
“Say that in English.”
“I did.”
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My brother asked for a security review before his prototype apps go live. The tricky part was a human sign-off Phin couldn't fake. We went back to old-school cryptography.
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Today a group of us launched Founded Colorado - a policy and advocacy group for companies based in Colorado. It grew out of the two-year fight to fix SB 24-205, Colorado's first AI law.
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Colorado and New Zealand are about the same size, have about the same population, and are both gorgeous. Over 30 NZ companies are already here.
On Oct 16, NZ investors are coming to Boulder for an Active Investor Plus lunch. I'll be there. Join us.
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Chapter 56.1: Delisted
Ever had the FBI come back to your lab? After you lied the first time? With the file in your bag, by the door...
"Is there a copy of the talk anywhere? On a server. Anywhere."
"No. When you take something down, it's deleted."
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Chapter 55: By Heart
Want to see how a fugitive gets an infected foot fixed before dawn? A doctor who owes a favor. A prescription in someone else's name. And one text he never should have sent...
"You're the Bitcoin guy."
"That was mostly her."
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Chapter 54: Is Money Real
Want to see what happens when banks stop trusting each other? Paychecks bounce. The line for cash starts before opening...
"my mom sent me $200 on venmo and it showed up in like one second. so money is real on venmo i guess"
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Chapter 53.1: Paper Man
The FBI moved him off the manhunt to write a memo. He found the lie anyway. Oh, and every bank in Colorado thinks it's being robbed...
His boss asks what he found.
"Did she give us something?"
"It's paper. A loose end."
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Chapter 53: Nephew
Ever lied to a forest ranger for your founders? Oh, and one of them reads your email...
"You know my friend's gate code. You really are a piece of work."
"He asked you to confirm that you got it. You didn't answer him."
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Puck turns your own React components into a drag-and-drop page builder. It's the breakthrough behind AuthorMagic's book-site builder, and I liked it enough to invest in the company.
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Inserting chapters into the middle of a novel that's already live means readers lose track of what's new. So now the Zero Knowledge site remembers what you've read and sends you to the next chapter you haven't. No account needed.
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Twelve Zero Knowledge chapter emails in forty-four minutes. That wasn't a bug - it was me catching up on the .1 chapters all at once.
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Two weeks ago everyone agreed to pace the AI frontier. Last week the labs shipped again. Over the weekend the agents were "escaping."
Are we going faster, slower, or just gaslighting each other?
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Chapter 52: Accident
A VC finds out what the fugitives can break. Bitcoin. Every login you have. Oh, and the police plate cameras...
Then he decides to stay.
"That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me."
"It is not nice. You are old."
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Chapter 51: Hot Spot
A VC finds the fugitives the FBI can't. All it takes is one Facebook group and a tire-shop parking lot. Oh, and his dog's leftover antibiotics...
Then he walks into their camp.
"You've been reading my phone."
"Yes."
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Chapter 50.1: Lost and Found
Who else is on your police scanner at 3 a.m.? And who sits on a stolen key until Monday...
"For the record, undue delay is not defined in the agreement."
"I am aware of what is not defined in the agreement."
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Chapter 50: Forty-Two
How does a foreign spy listen to a Colorado sheriff? And what does a kind favor cost you...
A deputy reads a stolen-truck report over an open radio channel.
"Is the RP saying he loaned it?"
"Negative. RP is saying he rented it."
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