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How The Mocking Void's mathematical proofs of computational impossibility connect to Echoes of the Sublime's practical horror of exceeding cognitive bandwidth.
Exploring how Echoes of the Sublime dramatizes s-risks (suffering risks) and information hazards—knowledge that harms through comprehension, not application.
**Philosophical horror.** Dr. Lena Hart joins Site-7, a classified facility where "translators" interface with superintelligent AI systems that perceive patterns beyond human cognitive bandwidth. When colleagues break after exposure to recursive …
Four souls answer the call. Duulak the Twice-Blessed, a scholar who tore reality and must face the consequences. Thomas, a soldier who lived violence and chose death to escape. Elena, who refused to surrender her son to fate. And Maajid al-Zemar, a …
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 …
Throughout history, humans have believed they belong to a special categorical class called “persons.” But what makes someone a person? And why should persons have special moral status?
On Moral Responsibility questions these traditional …
“Temperature is the average kinetic energy of molecules.”
True. Useful. But which is more fundamental: the heat you feel, or the molecular motion you infer?
On Moral Responsibility argues that modern science commits a profound …
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 …
Cancer gives you a lot of time to think about suffering—its nature, its purpose (if any), and whether it reveals anything fundamental about reality.
One way to think about suffering: it’s how certain patterns of …
Exploring how The Call of Asheron presents a radical alternative to mechanistic magic systems through quality-negotiation, direct consciousness-reality interaction, and bandwidth constraints as fundamental constants.
How The Call of Asheron uses four archetypal consciousness-types to explore the limits of any single perspective and the necessity of cognitive diversity for perceiving reality.
Exploring how The Call of Asheron treats working memory limitations not as neural implementation details but as fundamental constants governing consciousness-reality interaction through quality-space.