# What the Water Carried

> A neuroscientist has forty-eight days to finish work only this version of her can do.

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Contemporary Problems · Book 1

A neuroscientist has forty-eight days to finish work only this version of her can do.

Something in the Gainesville water supply made the whole town brilliant. The phenomenon has a clock, and she is counting. What she is doing inside the window she could not have understood six months ago, and it has to be finished now, because afterward she will have no way to audit it. By day twenty-two, she catches herself checking her own reasoning the way you would check a stranger's.

- ~77,000 words
- 30 chapters
- Gainesville, Florida

- cognitive science
- AI alignment
- trust
- identity

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