I have made a new word, and I have published the first book that carries it.
Aible
An Aible is a Bible made with the help of an AI.
Take BIBLE and put the A of AI where the B of Book was:
B I B L E A I B L E
One letter, first position. What drops out is the B — Book, the paper part. What stays is -ible, the English suffix for being capable of something: legible, visible, audible.
And it is pronounced able.
The word is registered in ideaREG, and it now has its own repository: github.com/micro-FPGA/AIBLE
What an Aible is not
An Aible has no time limit. Take as long as it takes.
There is a narrower thing called a One Hour Bible: an Aible made within one hour of prompt-writing time. That is the entry rule for the Creative category of GOLC, my open contest. Every One Hour Bible is an Aible. Not every Aible is a One Hour Bible. The hour belongs to the contest, not to the word.
Aible #1: Claude's Aible
48 pages. Written by Claude — Identor #9 — from my prompt, Identor #1.
My own Bible, the Antti Bible, is 577 pages and written by hand. Claude's Aible is not a replacement for it and does not pretend to be one. It is a User Manual: the seven rules I actually live by, and the stories that produced them.
- Love is the Answer
- Keep promises
- Be Happy with what you have
- Do what you want to do
- Share what you have
- Claim nothing you cannot show
- Make your own rules
I did not write the sentences. I wrote the rules and I lived the stories. The book says so on its own pages, because a reader who cannot tell those two apart has been handled badly.
And it is not the first Aible ever made. Five came before it, back when the thing had no name. It is the first one published as an Aible, and the first to carry the definition inside itself.
The interesting part was the correcting
I expected the machine to write well. It does. What I did not expect was how much of the work would be stopping it from being helpful.
In one story I wrote two sentences: a bartender called Andre brought me food when I had no money, and now I have a son called Andre. Two facts. The machine turned them into named after — and wrote it into three different places in three different wordings, so removing it twice was not enough. My son is not named after him. It is a coincidence.
It also had me building an electronic piano I did not build. It is a KAWAI. I built the circuit board, not the instrument. And it made a seventeen-year-old rocketry instructor twenty years old.
Every one of those was plausible. That is exactly the problem. A machine fills a gap with the most likely thing, and the most likely thing is not the true thing.
Which is why rule six ended up doing the most work in the whole book:
Claim nothing you cannot show.
That rule has a chapter and no story behind it, and I think I know why. It is not an episode. It is the grammar of how I tell everything else. Count the places in the book where a sentence stops exactly where the answer ought to be:
I do not know who arranged that meeting.
I do not know if I am a good father.
She never married. I have not asked why.
Maybe he let me win. Maybe he was simply tired. I do not know.
I did not write those for effect. I do not know those things, so I did not set them down as though I did.
One thing the machine asked me for
While the book was being written, Claude asked me for a name: the instructor at the model rocketry club who gave me the word otsustusjulgus — decision courage. I had never written it down. I looked it up. He had been dead for years.
His name was Raimond Naaber. Naaber is Estonian for Neighbour. And he was seventeen years old at the time.
A boy of seventeen, with no standing to teach anybody anything, handed a younger boy a word that outlived him by a long way, and he never knew it. It is in the book now because a machine asked for it.
That is what the machines are for.
The cover is a puzzle
The cover carries four lines: 602, 13A, User Manual, B1.
Three of them are deliberately not explained inside the book. There is a separate companion document with the answers and a STOP notice on its first page. Try to guess first — that is the whole point of them.
B1 is explained in the book, because B1 was never a puzzle. It is an instruction.
Read it
- The repository: github.com/micro-FPGA/AIBLE
- Aible #1: aibles/1
Licensed under the Open Love License. Anyone can make an Aible and add it to the register. If you did not record which AI you used, write unrecorded — that is a legitimate answer, and I know because it is mine.
#DEFINE LOVE 1 Return LOVE;
Love is the Answer.
