Eliot Peper

Author of twelve novels, including Cumulus, Bandwidth, and Ensorcelled.

Head of story at Tolan.

[Eliot Peper @eliotpeper]

My new book drops today!

Ensorcelled is a coming-of-age adventure about a boy who goes on a camping trip that changes his life, opening his mind and rewilding his attention.

At just 90 pages, it's a one-sitting read that will suck you in, make you think, and leave you changed.

[Eliot Peper @eliotpeper]

My first thought was that this is a great sci-fi story concept.

My second thought was that Paula’s post is that story.

[“paula” @paularambles]

satoshi being a mysterious pseudonymous entity who appeared out of nowhere, invented permissionless internet money, and vanished makes a lot more sense once you realize it was obviously a superintelligence traveling back in time to bootstrap the agent economy

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@paularambles Smart

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@niko_konstantin Yes

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It’s been fun to see how many people order multiple copies of Ensorcelled to give away to friends and family, an order of magnitude more than any of my other novels.

[Eliot Peper @eliotpeper]

@jonnym1ller Stoked you liked it :)

[Jonny Miller @jonnym1ller]

One of the best books I read this year, highly recommend

[Nabeel S. Qureshi @nabeelqu]

All this AI progress should only make you more impressed with poets and writers, who remain far ahead of even the very best frontier model outputs

[Eliot Peper @eliotpeper]

@kevin2kelly Same. The audiobook narrator was incredible.

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Life on the frontier was hard, and this book transports you into the minds and hearts of people who inhabited that time and place, not flinching away from the violence and suffering that was all too common, but not relishing it either, and instead showing us what made them who they were, so that we might gain a new vantage on ourselves.

[Moses Kagan @moseskagan]

Embarrassed to admit I started this book twice & stopped ~50 pages in.

Finally started again & finished (in ~4 days), & it instantly vaulted to the top of my personal list (along w East of Eden, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay & Gentleman in Moscow).

[Eliot Peper @eliotpeper]

@charliie Love the project.

@charliie I often received nonsensical fork options. It might be worth having an independent agent review the narrative-so-far's chain of cause and effect and judge a larger set of proposed forks, only presenting those that pass to the user.

[Eliot Peper @eliotpeper]

Cool project. Love the format. Give it a try.

[Charlie Clark @charliie]

Aaaaaaand we're live!

https://t.co/mrHuwmjq8T

A persistent, infinite, point-and-click adventure.

Every picture is a fork. Click something in it, decide what happens, and the world grows in that direction.

[Eliot Peper @eliotpeper]

I love mini-essays that cut straight to the heart of an idea, so it was a delight to contribute this little piece to @every's Thesis Statements project.

Concision is a productive constraint. Check out the full collection for more mini-essays that punch above their weight.

[Hannu Rajaniemi @hannu]

Crossover I didn’t know I wanted. We need an AI agent Homer.

[Anna Gát @TheAnnaGat]

Westworld season 1 is one of the best things I have ever seen in my entire life. Period. Couldn’t sleep for days after.

One of the best portrayals of AI in art ever and one of the great recaps of the timeless human concerns around free will we just can’t seem to solve.

Genius.

[Eliot Peper @eliotpeper]

Wow!

[Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer @poetengineer__]

imagining a few small gestures to edit/write with ai:
word: spin synonyms
sentence: shift the tone (cold <-> warm)
paragraph: shorten/expand

[Eliot Peper @eliotpeper]

@noahchestnut @readmaxread Just added it to my tbr list

[Eliot Peper @eliotpeper]

Goodreads finally has a use case.

[“paula” @paularambles]

goodreads finally serves a purpose other than just tracking books you’ve read

[Eliot Peper @eliotpeper]

Such a cool project.

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

“The Speed of the Earth” has returned to Black Rock City. Originally created in 02024, this art piece by Long Now Board members Kevin Kelly and David Rumsey uses a mile-long line of solar-powered LED strobes to create a streak of light that moves at the speed of the Earth's rotation.

More about the installation from @DavidRumseyMaps: https://t.co/R3tHaHfDQ1

More about Burning Man art from Kelly in this 1999 issue of Whole Earth magazine: https://t.co/a8gOzHrRK3

[Eliot Peper @eliotpeper]

@p_millerd @AuthorsEQTY Nice. Would love to hear how it goes. I’m currently locked into the predatory Audible ecosystem.

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@TheAnnaGat +1 to Gibson