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Mind the Gap — Proofreading Table

Source: MTG_full_text_for_proofreader.txt (1,917 lines).

Convention: UK English. Flagged against typing, spelling, punctuation, grammar, missing/duplicated words, and mechanical errors. Voice, style, and content not in scope.

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Types: TYPO · PUNCT · SPACE · GRAM · QUOTE · HYPHEN · CASE · CONSIST · MECH · FACT


Front Matter — Imprint, Acknowledgements, Dedications (lines 1–125)

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43"in August 2006.I did not yet know""in August 2006. I did not yet know"SPACEB
45"Here. Think about this." He said."Here. Think about this," he said.PUNCTB
46"every floor of my clinical work, , my teaching""every floor of my clinical work, my teaching" (double comma)PUNCTB
61ends "a chain of professional events that this book will reveal"add terminal full stopPUNCTB
70"Thank you, Andy. Both of us"single spaceSPACEB
87"Thank you Gary, and Paul, and Julie""Thank you, Gary, and Paul, and Julie" (direct address comma)PUNCTB
96"We wanted for Nothing.""We wanted for nothing." (mid-sentence)CASEB
98"extreme ends of the technology spectrum.."single full stopPUNCTB
98"Dan you are so special""Dan, you are so special" (direct address)PUNCTB
107"aged just 27 It must have brought""aged just 27. It must have brought"PUNCTR
112"Love you dad, miss you""Love you, Dad, miss you" (direct address; Dad capitalised as title)PUNCT/CASEA

Contents (lines 127–157)

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128–156"One · Human Recognition1" — title butted against page number throughoutspace between title and page number throughout TOCCONSISTA

Which Gap? (prelims, lines 159–183)

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182"Have you seen it? If you haven't"single spaceSPACEB

Chapter 1 — Human Recognition (lines 189–254)

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193"many times while writing this book"add terminal full stopPUNCTB
194"I accused it of being a thief. A proper"single spaceSPACEB
233"built on top. That's my hypothesis anyhow."single spaceSPACEB
249" Across all of them"remove leading spaceSPACEB

Chapter 2 — The Interpretation Trap (lines 261–375)

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281"top or bottom. We talk about"single spaceSPACEB
344"feeling unheard by a partner or criticised by one – they are invariably"en-dash with spaces — em-dash used elsewhere; consider consistencyCONSISTB
367"Jo picked up on it up.""Jo picked up on it." OR "Jo picked it up." (extraneous "up")GRAMA

Chapter 3 — Hidden Architecture (lines 381–475)

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386"when the cancer diagnosis arrived. The husband"single spaceSPACEB
386ends "with the loudest one calling the shots"add terminal full stopPUNCTB
471ends "only in one mind, yours"add terminal full stopPUNCTB

Chapter 4 — The Machine Underneath (lines 482–587)

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489"humankind has generated. So you"single spaceSPACEB
490"construct your answer, there isn't"comma splice — replace comma with full stop or semicolonGRAMA
491"(known as compute) – this is not"en-dash with spaces; em-dash used elsewhereCONSISTB
491magical "I know everything in the world AI database" it comes frommissing comma or dash after closing quotePUNCTA
494"in its simplest form – here's a fuller explanation"add terminal punctuationPUNCTB
554"FinOps teams… doubled in twelve months from thirty-one per cent to sixty-three per cent of large organisations now operating one."grammar mismatch — subject ("teams") doesn't agree with predicate ("of large organisations operating one"). Recast suggested.GRAMA

Chapter 5 — Drift (lines 593–675)

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596"observation from inside it experienced frequently""observation from inside it, experienced frequently"PUNCTB
661"Three practical disciplines.""Four practical disciplines." — first/second/third/fourth then numbered in 662–665FACTR
666"you are more likely near accurate""you are more likely accurate" OR "closer to accurate" — awkward as writtenGRAMA
675"The problem is revisited in Chapter Eight"add terminal full stopPUNCTB

Chapter 6 — Compression (lines 682–745)

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733"a two sided handover""a two-sided handover"HYPHENB
733"next thread. I wrote over 2m words across 17 \"chats\", I had to develop"single space; "2m" → "two million" (prose convention); comma splice → full stopSPACE/STYLE/GRAMA
733"rigorous handover process to protect the context. What I did agree"single spaceSPACEB
733the "why we were discussing what we were – I consider that a function of my mind, not the AI's tokensopening quote at "why" never closed; missing terminal full stopQUOTE/PUNCTR
740" She is through the tunnel now"remove leading spaceSPACEB

Chapter 7 — Fluency and False Confidence (lines 752–866)

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815"people in load bearing positions""load-bearing positions"HYPHENB
815ends "do not have the time or resources to probe more deeply"add terminal full stopPUNCTB
816"a spend-this-on-that report ."remove space before full stopSPACEB
856"Whose attention have you been trying to hold?or \"what's the upside of such a diagnosis\""space after "hold?"; close the alternative quote; choose terminal punctuationQUOTE/PUNCT/SPACEA

Chapter 8 — Hallucination, The Defended Gap (lines 872–1001)

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877"for a fraction of a second causing someone to feel ashamed""for a fraction of a second, causing someone to feel ashamed"PUNCTB
942"fluency dressed as discipline. Affectation, by another name."single spaceSPACEB
950"internalizing and externalizing"UK: "internalising and externalising" — check whole para for -ize vs -iseCONSISTA
990"Maria has the shame with only one defence — \"the AI did it\"."UK convention places full stop inside the closing quote: "…the AI did it."PUNCTB

Chapter 9 — The Instrument (lines 1007–1094)

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1016"MRP — Materials Requirements Planning""Material Requirements Planning" (industry standard — singular)FACTR
1074"Fuse Energy's AI assistant.. I understood"single full stopPUNCTA

Chapter 10 — The Maturity Spectrum (lines 1101–1186)

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1186"still playing the first one, like cavemen with match sticks""with matchsticks" (one word); add terminal full stopHYPHEN/PUNCTB

Chapter 11 — Me, Myself or I (lines 1192–1310)

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1213"characterisation: Future self."single spaceSPACEB
1213"The baby. Each client names"single spaceSPACEB
1213"let the room do the rest. The client"single spaceSPACEB
1213their Russian journey begins "well this one is me" "so who's that then" "earlier me" and so the journey continuesmissing punctuation between quoted utterances; capitalisation inside quotes (e.g. "Well this one is me.")QUOTE/PUNCT/CASEA
1221"Paul asked if the hurt doll had a name."third-person voice shift mid-passage (Olivia's account) — confirm intendedCONSISTA
1242ends "in the preparation of this and other books that you read"add terminal full stopPUNCTB

Chapter 12 — The Dialect (lines 1317–1392)

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1320"in my mouth. I'd had a sore tongue"single spaceSPACEB
1320ends "what I call the pirate surgery"add terminal full stopPUNCTB
1321"August 10th, 2017. Mr [name held]"single spaceSPACEB
1321"Mr [name held] who announced \"it is cancer. The treatment is cutting your tongue out\"""Mr [name held], who announced" OR "Mr [name held] announced" (fragment as written); terminal full stop missingGRAM/PUNCTA
1322"\"you should be prepared to be unintelligible on the phone\"."full stop inside closing quote (UK); capitalise first word of quote ("You")PUNCT/CASEB
1323"I said: \"don't worry about that, I don't use the phone\"."capitalise "Don't"; full stop inside closing quotePUNCT/CASEB
1327"OK Paul, time to see if you can talk "A . . . , B . . . , C, . . . D . . . " eventually came outnested-quote structure broken; "C, . . ." carries stray comma; outer quote close ambiguous; double space after "tears."QUOTE/PUNCT/SPACEA
1331"I had to lead to speak again.""learn"TYPOR
1331"feeding through a tube. I had to"single spaceSPACEB
1377"by my editorial agent I call Jose""by my editorial agent, whom I call Jose" — missing relative pronoun/commaGRAMA
1384"Thank you Jose. Some helpful insights""Thank you, Jose." (direct address); single spacePUNCT/SPACEB

Chapter 13 — Worker as a Service (lines 1399–1475)

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1461"wouldn't use conversational AI …. Will they?"three-dot ellipsis "…" — current has ellipsis + extra full stopPUNCTB
1461"the delay, 40 minutes, and my belief"check whether "40 minutes" needs to be "forty minutes" (book uses words for numbers elsewhere)CONSISTB

Chapter 14 — Mind the Gap (lines 1482–1546)

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1487"an artificial Intelligence"lowercase "intelligence" — most uses in book are lowercaseCASE/CONSISTA
1491"Your probably now thinking""You're"TYPOR
1491"please stick with it – its about""it's"TYPOR
1496"Filed under WWWF — what happened, where, who was present, how it felt"acronym is W·W·W·F but expanded form gives What/Where/Who/How — third letter mismatch with "how" → check intendedCONSISTA
1497"wouldn't have vanished. Something deeply hidden."single spaceSPACEB
1497"If maybe I had done something different my dad wouldn't have vanished.""If maybe I had done something different, my dad wouldn't have vanished."PUNCTB
1506"I said: \"we don't talk about that\". A reinforcement learned behaviour"single space x2; capitalise "We"; full stop inside quote; "reinforcement-learned"; terminal full stopSPACE/CASE/PUNCT/HYPHENA
1509"Not good enough"full stop inside quote (UK)PUNCTB
1516"Not Good Enough. NGE."single spaceSPACEB
1520"Biblical is how I would describe that day , it was."remove space before commaSPACEB
1521"'Noticing I have 2 Dads.'"straight quotes used here; curly elsewhere — check house styleCONSISTB
1524" We don't talk about that."remove leading spaceSPACEB

Chapter 15 — Which Gap? This One. (lines 1553–1625)

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1558"a federation of self's""selves"TYPO/GRAMR
1561"more than one self-pressing""more than one self pressing" (no hyphen — not a compound adjective)HYPHENA
1565"There is no gap between them through which the truth could press Jose (Claude AI Anthropic Opus 4.7)opening quote never closed; attribution syntax — also missing terminal full stop or close-quoteQUOTE/PUNCTR
1567"Writing a book. driving a car"either "…book, driving a car" (comma list) or "…book. Driving a car." (capital after stop)PUNCT/CASER
1567"trusting, healing, listening, ."remove trailing comma before full stopPUNCTA
1569"All behaviour is learned behaviour. Not all behaviour is taught". Paul Roebuck – coined term – tagline – deeply held belieffull stop should sit inside the closing quote (UK, complete sentence); terminal full stop missing on "deeply held belief"PUNCTA
1572"every belief is a memory… that also suggest there is no universal truth""suggests" (subject-verb)GRAMR
1575"lion eating a human! Most come from"single spaceSPACEB
1580"The AI is a silicone chip""silicon chip" — silicon (Si) is the semiconductor; silicone is the rubber polymerTYPO/FACTR
1587"the survival system gets a pin prick""pinprick" (one word — and line 1590 uses the same word — check consistency)HYPHENB
1620"Not what about the kids Not Will the grandkids ever hear grandads voice."three issues: (a) missing punctuation between "kids" and "Not"; (b) "grandads" → "Grandad's"; (c) terminal "?" or "." missingPUNCT/CASER

About the Author, Back Matter, Bibliography, Glossary (lines 1628–1918)

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1835--- GPU — AI --- (glossary entry)format as plain entry like every other glossary line — drop the --- wrappersMECH/CONSISTA

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