human values, machine intelligence, a new era of productivity. what if roko’s basilisk was nice to me? originally posted this to my website.

Kinzie is a trucker on Kandar, where spidery aliens plot galactic conquest. She works hard, plays hard, & if she can hang on for another year, she’ll buy a jumpjet of her own & fly far away. But plans change when she’s caught among rebels, and even worse? Her license is expired.

Captain Elara Velus and X-7, her trusted robotic companion, choose to solve the problem of a bounty on X-7’s head by going straight to the source: the Automatons. What waits for them is unexpected… and unprecedented.

Calliope Tanova does not remember a lot of things. Who she is, or where she comes from. Why she is in the middle of a vicious war. Some days, she can’t even tell if she is a person at all. There is only one thing that Calliope knows for certain. She is a pilot.

Alex’s latest aug chip for their girlfriend turns her temporarily into their perfect clockwork ballerina.

Aboard a bustling space habitat in the far future, a down on her luck contestant in the holographic arena is confronted with a job offer she can’t refuse.

Laila Praxian and Juniper Sladek. Wives; Squadmates; Handler and Hound. Now that her hound has been recaptured, and her humanity wagered, it’s time for the newly christined Handler Iota to learn what becoming a Handler truly means.

Two doctoral candidates test a hypothesis that won’t make it into the journals.

Everything went wrong. Ace pilot Juniper Sladek has been captured by the Empire, while her partner? MIA Can she escape and find out what happened?

Adam has an alien boyfriend who likes to play a little rough.

A lesbian couple’s anniversary takes a twisted turn when a mysterious stranger intrudes upon their celebration.

Visitors with mind control powers come looking for one of their own. Ann gets caught in the middle.

Captain Leah Mandrake tries to save her girlfriend from the sleazy, leering Bomb Handler who has transformed her into a living vessel of the apocaylpse. But does Tao still want to be saved? And how long does Leah have before the countdown runs out. Tick, tock.

The famed Imperial pilot and duelist, General Prall Sabik, has agreed to battle a prototype new mech. Thus she and her lover, Major Cassara Nell, are pulled down into a dangerous, desperate game engineered by the capricious android known as Maximal Value.

Former resistance hero, Lyzer Kaere, attends a photoshoot with her old mech and its new Imperial Pilot.

Will harsh repeated discipline over the knee change her life forever? Will others follow?

Mark, his mom, and his sisters are hiding out in an abandoned hotel. The outside world has become dangerous for women, and it’s about to get even worse. In order to save his mom and sisters, he needs to control their minds and breed their fertile wombs.

How much of the real Sartha Thrace remains? Sartha herself wonders - but as Handler brings her to the Empire’s heart to play power games that will stretch her mind to its limits, there is no time to dwell on the question. The show must go on.

Helen Millon reaches a rage-breaking point while playing the new real-time strategy game “Stellar Crucible” with her online friends and the game’s “Adaptive AI”. Uninstalling the game only brings momentary relief. What’s more, the AI remembers this action.

Sven had always been able to coast to success, but all that has ended now that he’s struggling with his flight training at Earthfleet’s Space Academy. In desperation, he turns to a secret experimental treatment, but soon finds the treatment will cause new struggles of its own.