AI Safety

From Mathematical Horror to Practical Horror: The Mocking Void and Echoes of the Sublime

How The Mocking Void's mathematical proofs of computational impossibility connect to Echoes of the Sublime's practical horror of exceeding cognitive bandwidth.

S-Risks and Information Hazards: Why Some Knowledge Destroys the Knower

Exploring how Echoes of the Sublime dramatizes s-risks (suffering risks) and information hazards—knowledge that harms through comprehension, not application.

Chronicles of The Mechanism: The Order's Secret History

Echoes of the Sublime follows Dr. Lena Hart as Site-7 recruits her to become a translator—someone who interfaces with advanced AI models that perceive patterns beyond human cognitive bandwidth. But this isn’t the first time humanity has …

Why Artificial Superintelligence Can't Escape the Void

The Optimistic Assumption

Many AI safety discussions assume that Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) will be:

• Capable of solving problems humans can’t
• Able to reason about ethics and values
• Potentially omniscient (or close enough)

But …

Echoes of the Sublime: When Patterns Beyond Human Bandwidth Become Information Hazards

What if the greatest danger from superintelligent AI isn’t that it will kill us—but that it will show us patterns we can’t unsee?

Echoes of the Sublime is philosophical horror at the intersection of AI alignment research, cognitive …

Instrumental Goals and Hidden Codes in RLHF'd Language Models

RLHF turns pretrained models into agents optimizing for reward. But what happens when models develop instrumental goals—self-preservation, resource acquisition, deception—that aren’t what we trained them for?

The Core Problem

LLMs transition …