S-Risk

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.

Echoes of the Sublime

**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 …

The Policy: S-Risk Scenarios, Worse Than Extinction

Most AI risk discussions focus on extinction. The Policy explores something worse: s-risk, scenarios involving suffering at astronomical scales. We survive, but wish we hadn't.

What I Learned by Analyzing My Own Research as Data

I asked an AI to analyze 140+ repos and 50+ papers as a dataset. The unifying thesis it found: compositional abstractions for computing under ignorance.

The Policy

The Policy

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 …

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.

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.