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#natural language process... Open access Sep 2026

Strategic Temporal Opacity in Interstellar Interaction: Light-Speed Delay, Outdated Beliefs and Asynchronous Action in a Bayesian Game

Interstellar communication is not merely slow. It is strategically stale. A message received across distance reports a sender that may no longer occupy the same strategic state, while replies and irreversible actions are chosen on different local clocks. This paper develops a delayed Bayesian interaction game in which...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#machine learning Open access Sep 2026

When Does a Dark Forest Emerge? An Open Agent-Based Model of Interstellar Strategic Regimes

The Dark Forest hypothesis is usually presented as a general consequence of uncertainty, technological asymmetry and catastrophic vulnerability. This paper asks a narrower question: under which combinations of beliefs, capabilities, signalling conditions and network incentives does a Dark Forest actually emerge? A Dark...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#machine learning Open access Sep 2026

When Does a Dark Forest Emerge? An Open Agent-Based Model of Interstellar Strategic Regimes

The Dark Forest hypothesis is usually presented as a general consequence of uncertainty, technological asymmetry and catastrophic vulnerability. This paper asks a narrower question: under which combinations of beliefs, capabilities, signalling conditions and network incentives does a Dark Forest actually emerge? A Dark...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#climate science Open access Sep 2026

From Two Players to a Galactic Network: Entry, Extinction, Coalitions, Cliques and Spatial Topology in Interstellar Strategic Interaction

Dark Forest arguments commonly reduce interstellar strategy to a bilateral encounter between two persistent civilisations. A galaxy, however, is an open population in which civilisations enter, disappear, form selective relationships and occupy a spatially constrained network. This paper develops a continuous-time Gala...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#climate science Open access Sep 2026

From Two Players to a Galactic Network: Entry, Extinction, Coalitions, Cliques and Spatial Topology in Interstellar Strategic Interaction

Dark Forest arguments commonly reduce interstellar strategy to a bilateral encounter between two persistent civilisations. A galaxy, however, is an open population in which civilisations enter, disappear, form selective relationships and occupy a spatially constrained network. This paper develops a continuous-time Gala...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Open access Sep 2026

The Conjunctive Misfortune Problem: Behavioural Tail Risk, Outcome Luck, and Punishment Cascades

A serious behavioural failure may be uncommon within a person’s history yet become the principal basis for judgments of character and future risk. This conceptual article develops the conjunctive misfortune problem: adverse conditions, culpable action, stochastic harm, categorical institutional responses, and persisten...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Open access Sep 2026

The Conjunctive Misfortune Problem: Behavioural Tail Risk, Outcome Luck, and Punishment Cascades

A serious behavioural failure may be uncommon within a person’s history yet become the principal basis for judgments of character and future risk. This conceptual article develops the conjunctive misfortune problem: adverse conditions, culpable action, stochastic harm, categorical institutional responses, and persisten...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#data science Open access Sep 2026

The Status-Punishment Paradox: Status-Amplified Schadenfreude, Moralized Reputational Aggression, and the Digital Afterlife of Punishment

Why can prior achievement become a liability after wrongdoing? This conceptual article integrates research on tall-poppy effects, social comparison, schadenfreude, moral outrage, public shaming, news values, and criminal-record stigma into a theory of the Status-Punishment Paradox. Status ordinarily increases social va...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#data science Open access Sep 2026

The Status-Punishment Paradox: Status-Amplified Schadenfreude, Moralized Reputational Aggression, and the Digital Afterlife of Punishment

Why can prior achievement become a liability after wrongdoing? This conceptual article integrates research on tall-poppy effects, social comparison, schadenfreude, moral outrage, public shaming, news values, and criminal-record stigma into a theory of the Status-Punishment Paradox. Status ordinarily increases social va...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Open access Sep 2026

The Post-Economic Human: Artificial Intelligence, Ontological Displacement, and the Ideological Foundations of Future Conflict

Artificial intelligence is usually analysed as a productivity technology, a labour-market shock, or a governance problem. This article argues that its deeper political significance may arise from a fourth channel: ontological displacement. Ontological displacement occurs when a technology weakens the socially recognise...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Open access Sep 2026

Hermeneutic Sovereignty under Generative AI: A Humanities Framework for Protecting Human Meaning-Making from Interpretive Foreclosure

A person-centred framework of hermeneutic sovereignty for generative AI is developed and concludes that trustworthy AI must preserve not only a human role in decisions, but a meaningful human standing in the production of the interpretations on which decisions depend.

Kwan-Hong Tan · 0 citations
#climate science Open access Aug 2026

Does Scientific Explanation Depend on Narrative Coherence?

This paper critically examines the long-standing question of whether scientific explanation depends on narrative coherence. While traditional philosophy of science has largely marginalized the role of narrative, this paper argues that narrative coherence is not merely a rhetorical or pedagogical tool, but a fundamental...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 15, 2026

Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar

Zero-knowledge proofs can verify computing results without rerunning workloads or exposing sensitive data. Magnetar helps bring them into the mainstream with support for standard programming languages, major speed gains, and quantum-resistant security. The post Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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