White papers
Brief papers
Each paper is a Markdown file. A new one joins this list on the next publish.
Acheron
Acheron, and the lock on the controls
The dystopian reading. When a system triages to stay alive, the danger is a ranking no person can see, appeal, or reverse in time.
Both vectors
How to read a story through both vectors
A method. Name the shared fact, ask the Acheron question, ask the Lyra question, and mark the coordinate where the two readings meet.
Lyra
Lyra, and the weight set down
The utopian reading. The same tools can be aimed at scarcity, in medicine, materials, and attention, and the risk is a shield that becomes a room.
Both vectors
What the terminal state is
A terminal state is where a volatile process settles. This site uses that idea to hold two stories about AI at the same time.