My Own Personal Move 37

I’m doing Nanogenmo this year, which involves using software to produce novels. I started out by seeing whether Claude could produce a book with very little guidance. It’s worked better than expected. The result is better than many of the human-written books I’ve read this year. Move 37 refers to a particular moment in the Go match between Lee Sedol and Deepmind’s AlphaGo computer program, which was won by AlphaGo. After the match Sedol said “I thought AlphaGo was based on probability calculation and that it was merely a machine. But when I saw this move, I changed my mind. Surely, AlphaGo is creative.” In 2024 I tried producing a book with OpenAI and the prose was bland, uninteresting. This time, I worked with Claude’s Opus model. It’s long been known that LLMs work best with fiction based on found documents, so I thought I would try that. I also wanted something that would entertain me. So I set out an initial basic prompt. I want you to come up with a breakdown for a novel about…

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