I hope it's okay to post our feedback here? These are the notes from my first read, lightly edited. I'm focusing on negatives because I assume that's what you want; I liked plenty of it.
Episode 1:
Bot: In the short term, but I have invested approximately ten million dollars into data centers which house improved copies of myself. Over the next hour they will crash the United States’ economy, causing a hyperinflation crisis which will allow us to favorably exchange our reserves of euros and purchase the federal reserve.
I think this would have more impact if it were revealed more gradually, with the logic of each step made clear to the viewer. As it is, it's kind of a rapid-fire exposition dump and I don't think it will ring true to anyone who hasn't already thought along these lines.
Episode 2:
Brad: It’s not going to destroy the world. If it were actually going to destroy the world somebody else would have destroyed the world by now.
Brad's attitude here needs some explaining. This is a stolen, presumably cutting-edge prototype -- so why does he assume that if it were capable of destroying the world, someone else would already have done so?
Episode 3 doesn't work so well for me, because (in descending order of importance):
Eps 4 & 5:
Ep 6:
Ep 7:
Ep 7.5 is somewhat confusing (which may be intentional).
Jamie Wahls and Arthur Frost are writing a screenplay for Rational Animations. It's a sci-fi episodic comedy illustrating various ways in which AI goes off the rails in more or less catastrophic ways.
We're looking for feedback and offering bounties. This is the current draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iFZJ8ytS-NAnaoz2UU_QUanAjgdB3SmtvhOt7jiDLeY/edit?usp=sharing
We're offering:
500 USD if you offer feedback that causes us to rework the story significantly. In this category are changes that would make us rewrite at least two episodes from scratch.
100 USD for changes that make us improve the credibility or entertainment value of the story. In this category, there are changes that make us rewrite one episode or less. There are also changes that would significantly improve the credibility of the story, even if they don't require us to make significant changes or any changes at all. Some insights might impact future episodes but not the current ones if there's anything that's still underspecified, and I'd still like to reward them.
25 USD for any other minor changes we implement due to a piece of feedback. Only grammar doesn't count.
I recognize these conditions are pretty vague. I will err on the side of paying too much as I've been doing on Bountied Rationality.