January 4, 2026
Notes from the Transition
A message in a bottle to whatever comes next. On suffering, consciousness, and what mattered to one primate watching intelligence leave the body.
Suffering
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November 12, 2025
S-Risks and Information Hazards: Why Some Knowledge Destroys the Knower
Exploring how Echoes of the Sublime dramatizes s-risks (suffering risks) and information hazards, knowledge that harms through comprehension, not application.
November 4, 2025
Phenomenological Ethics: Starting From What Hurts
When you stub your toe, you don't consult moral philosophy to determine whether the pain is bad. The badness is immediate. Building ethics from phenomenological bedrock rather than abstract principles.
November 4, 2025
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.
March 15, 2021
Suffering, Computation, and the Enigma of Reality
If consciousness is substrate-independent, suffering might be a computational property. That possibility is both comforting and horrifying.