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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.
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 …
Many AI safety discussions assume that Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) will be:
But …
“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
Lovecraft understood something profound: complete …