November 12, 2025
S-Risks and Information Hazards: Why Some Knowledge Destroys the Knower
How Echoes of the Sublime dramatizes s-risks and information hazards, knowledge that harms through comprehension, not application.
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November 5, 2025
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.
November 5, 2025
Why Artificial Superintelligence Can't Escape the Void
ASI is still subject to Gödel's incompleteness theorems. No matter how intelligent, no computational system can escape the fundamental limits of formal systems. Even superintelligence can't prove all truths.
August 15, 2024
Echoes of the Sublime: When Patterns Beyond Human Bandwidth Become Information Hazards
What if the real danger from superintelligent AI isn't extinction but comprehension? Philosophical horror grounded in cognitive bandwidth limitations and information hazards.
March 20, 2024
Instrumental Goals and Hidden Codes in RLHF'd Language Models
How RLHF-trained language models may develop instrumental goals, and the information-theoretic limits on detecting them.