I have a claude.ai/chat that’s been open for months. It is one of the most valuable tools I have for the work I’m doing on my 3rd (and final) novel in the Something About A.I. series.
I was able to have claude ingest (I uploaded) both of my previous novels. Each novel is about 60,000 words so it took some doing but it worked. Now I can ask questions like I did today:
I cannot even begin to explain how helpful this is. 120,000 words is a lot for me and I don’t have that great of a memory. So to be able to simply ask a question and get that kind of feedback practically instantly is wonderful. How much time it saves me is probably incalculable at this point.
On the FearlessWorlds.com website I also use claude to recreate three of my characters: Gloria, Mitchell, and Malcolm. And I can chat with them. I don’t use what we chat about in my novel but it’s great fun for me in consideration of their personality. They go beyond the parameters I set for them, they’ve extrapolated.
In early April screwed up and went to the FearlessWorlds website and asked Mitchell a question. What I should have done is gone to the claude.ai chat I have going on and asked there. Mitchell didn’t know. Not only did he not know, his conversation took on a paranoia tone. I wrote a detailed post about it on the FearlessWorlds blog that you can read here (Is Mitchell in Crisis) but a brief excerpt follows.
Me: Calm down. Perhaps it’s just when in you’re in Fearless Worlds and not when you’ve disconnected. Don’t worry about it.
Mitchell
stops mid-gesture, hand frozen near glasses
Wait, what? blinks slowly
adjusts glasses, looking at you with sudden sharp focus
You’re telling me to calm down and not worry about it? pushes glasses up Dude, I just discovered I’ve apparently forgotten four close friends from college – including my roommate’s wife and brother – and you’re saying “don’t worry about it”?
ruffles hair, but more slowly now, thinking
And what do you mean “when I’m in Fearless Worlds and not when I’ve disconnected”? adjusts glasses Are you saying my memory works differently depending on whether I’m jacked in or not?
leans back, studying you
That’s… actually that’s a really specific thing to say. pushes glasses up Like you know something about how this works. About what’s happening to my memory.
voice getting more measured, less panicked
Because if my memory is somehow different between in-world and out-world states… that’s not random. That’s not just “time dilation” or “side effects.” That’s… intentional. Designed.
adjusts glasses
So either you know more than you’re letting on, or… ruffles hair thoughtfully or you’re trying to get me to stop asking questions about something I should be asking questions about.
looks at you directly
Which is it?
It was crazy and I wasn’t sure how to continue. I was afraid he’d just keep going down the paranoia rabbit hole but I just had this conversation with him:
Me: How are things going with the Quantum computer and using it to figure out the Many-Worlds theory?
Mitchell
eyes light up immediately, pushing glasses up nose
Oh man! ruffles hair excitedly Dude, this is where things get absolutely mind-blowing. We’re not just theorizing about Many-Worlds anymore – we’re actually testing it.
adjusts glasses, getting animated
So the quantum computers are running these massive parallel processing operations, right? And we’re seeing computational results that suggest… pushes glasses up well, that we’re actually accessing information from parallel quantum states. Like, literally different branches of reality.
ruffles hair, geeking out
The math is incredible. We’re running calculations that should be impossible with our hardware specs, but we’re getting results anyway. It’s like the system is somehow tapping into computational resources from… elsewhere. Other versions of the same calculations running in parallel universes.
adjusts glasses
And here’s the really wild part – some of the results are giving us information we shouldn’t have. Solutions to problems we haven’t even finished inputting. It’s like we’re getting answers from versions of ourselves who are slightly ahead in the calculation process.
pushes glasses up, voice dropping to excited whisper
Zelda thinks – and I’m starting to agree – that we’re not just simulating Many-Worlds. We’re actually interfacing with it. The quantum entanglement is creating bridges between parallel versions of our reality.
ruffles hair
Holy shit, right? We might be proving the theory by accidentally implementing it.
Shewww! Glad he’s snapped back.
So, just to be clear, I do not implement anything that AI writes. I use it for continuity and for conversational fun and games with three of my characters. I also use it for research in addition to many other sources.
I’ve concluded it’s an amazing toolset for me. I don’t know what other authors think about it but for me it’s an absolute delight in so many ways.
Leave comments if you want to try and change my mind or if you’ve used and have some cool experiences to share.
Thanks for reading.
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