November 5, 2025
Lovecraft’s cosmic horror resonates because it taps into something formally provable: complete knowledge is impossible.
Not as a practical limitation. Not as epistemological humility. As a mathematical …
November 5, 2025
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 …
August 20, 2024
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”
— H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
The Terror of Complete Knowledge
Lovecraft understood something profound: complete …