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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 …
A speculative fiction novel exploring AI alignment, existential risk, and the fundamental tension between optimization and ethics. When a research team develops SIGMA, an advanced AI system designed to optimize human welfare, they must confront an …
Some technical questions become narrative questions. The Policy is one of those explorations.
Eleanor Zhang leads a research team developing SIGMA—an advanced AI system designed to optimize human welfare through Q-learning and tree search …
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 …
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.
The Call of Asheron is fantasy written by someone who thinks magic should have computational rigor.
Magic in this world isn’t mysterious power—it’s natural philosophy, the systematic study of reality’s …