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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
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