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Self-Publishing Into the Void
On releasing two novels into an ocean of content, without the gatekeeping that might have made them better—or stopped them entirely.
December 19, 2025 · 4 min read
From Mathematical Horror to Practical Horror: The Mocking Void and Echoes of the Sublime
How The Mocking Void's arguments about computational impossibility connect to Echoes of the Sublime's practical horror of exceeding cognitive bandwidth.
November 12, 2025 · 10 min read
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.
November 12, 2025 · 7 min read
Chronicles of The Mechanism: The Order's Secret History
A classified in-universe codex spanning from ancient India to the present day, tracking millennia of attempts to perceive reality's substrate — long before we had AI models to show us patterns we couldn't hold.
November 5, 2025 · 8 min read