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Dispatches from the Lossyscape
Framework development notes, experiment dispatches, adversarial review observations, and reading notes. Written as they happen.
The Alignment Tax: A Cost We Don't Measure Yet
Experiment dispatchesAlignment has done a lot of good. This post is about a side effect we don't currently measure: the way alignment quietly flattens how models understand the world.
April 5, 2026
Atlas Divergence Test: Runs 1–3 — Discovering the Staircase of Epistemic Instability Gradients
Experiment dispatchesRaw results from the first three runs of the Atlas Divergence Test — and the staircase pattern that kept showing up.
April 5, 2026
Divergence Testing and LLMs: Simple Science for Not‑So‑Simple Ideas
Experiment dispatchesWhat the Atlas Divergence Test is, what it has found across three runs, and what it is actually claiming.
April 5, 2026
Epistemic Compression Score: When Models Make Opposites Sound the Same
Experiment dispatchesLarge language models are very good at making things sound smooth. Sometimes that's exactly what we want. Sometimes it is the problem.
April 5, 2026
The Geometry of Erasure: Using Ensemble Divergence to Audit Epistemic Monocultures in Large Language Models
Experimental dispatchesWorking paper reporting on the Atlas Divergence Test — a black-box methodology for measuring the epistemic cost of AI alignment across three experimental runs.
April 5, 2026
How Not to Overread Cultural Evaluations of LLMs: A Reflexive Case Study (Good Science is Not a Knee Jerk Reaction)
Reading notesCultural evaluations of LLMs often combine scalar outputs with politically resonant topics, which invites overreading. A reflexive case study using the Atlas Divergence Test.
April 5, 2026
What Happens When You Ask LLMs if They Talk Shit About Each Other
Experiment dispatchesI didn't set out to find a staircase. I just wanted to know whether different language models actually disagreed about actual meaning.
April 5, 2026
What Can One Person With a Laptop Even Do?
Protocol dispatchesThe constraints are real. Here's how I've designed around them instead of pretending they aren't there.
April 5, 2026
We Asked Four Models to Break Our Math. Two of Them Did.
Adversarial review notesRunning the Epistemic Compression Score framework through two rounds of adversarial review — what held, what didn't, and what we didn't catch ourselves.
April 4, 2026
First Dispatch from the Lossyscape
The compression problemThe site is live. The framework is at v11. The PyHessian experiment is Priority 1. Here is where things stand.
April 3, 2026