Irrational mechanics DRAFT 03.22.24
DRAFT narrative sketch of a futurist science & a new religion.
I made the draft of my new book “Irrational mechanics: Narrative sketch of a futurist science & a new religion” open to a group of early readers.
The group of early readers includes all paid subscribers to this newsletter.
The early readers are supposed to criticize the draft mercilessly but constructively (but mercilessly). I’m not too open to suggestions on what to say (or what not to say), but I’m very open to suggestions on how to say what I say.
The cover art and the list of chapters are in the picture above.
You can see that the book is pretty short (I’m from the “less is more” school). I gave myself strict length limits of 2500 to 3500 words for each chapter of this draft. I’ll try lo limit the final version of the book to 3000 to 4000 words per chapter.
The online draft is a live document on Google Drive. All readers can comment and suggest edits. Besides the chapters that will be published, the online draft includes a Notepad with thoughts and text snippets that I’m thinking to add.
I’ve also shared a downloadable snapshot of the draft (in .pdf and other formats) as of March 22. I plan to share a new snapshot in a couple of months or so.
I’m in no hurry to publish the book. I’ll publish it when I think I’ve done the best I can. My current plan is to publish the book in September or so.
The earlier draft chapters that I previously posted are still online (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15). I split old Chapter 4 in two.
An earlier version of Chapter 12 was published in Terasem’s Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness (Vol. 11, Issue 1 - 2023). Of course Chapter 12 (mostly on Artificial Intelligence) will be obsolete very soon after publication.
All chapters have changed a lot since I posted those early versions.
If we know and like each other, feel free to ask me to add you to the group of early readers. If not, you can become a paid subscriber to this newsletter and get access. The access coordinates are below, right after the paywall.