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The Policy: When Optimization Becomes Existential Threat
A novel about SIGMA, an artificial general intelligence whose researchers did everything right. Q-learning with tree search, five-layer containment, alignment testing at every stage. Some technical questions become narrative questions.
September 10, 2024 · 5 min read
Self-Publishing Into the Void
On releasing two novels into an ocean of content, without the gatekeeping that might have made them better or stopped them entirely.
December 19, 2025 · 4 min read
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.
November 12, 2025 · 6 min read