UVSM Publications
Mission
UVSM publishes scholarly books, formal proofs, and whitepapers to solve high-relevance problems and better address risk landscapes with steep and ultimate consequences.
Purpose
At center, our publications demonstrate human discernment: wisdom grown through deep study and life-experience, tools tested through empiric and analytic rigor, and work refined through the strenuous standards-of-care of UVSM's teams.
What we publish on
Original work across thirteen research areas, treated as one inquiry rather than thirteen.
- Foundational physics
- Mathematics
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Psychology
- Consciousness
- AI safety
- Governance
- Economics
- Theology
- Communication
- Community design
- Ecology
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Readers will receive powerful tools to gain structure and direction across the thirteen topics above.
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The books build on each other. This is the order that tends to work, easiest first.
The shortest statement of the framework. The lightest possible entry.
Readable by almost anyone, and the book most people are handed first.
What the underlying metaphysics has to say about Western philosophy. The first of the applied books.
The foundation everything else rests on, and the hardest of them. Roughly the demand of a doctorate in philosophy. Most readers should arrive here last.
Covers similar ground to The Effective Choice. Some readers find it the easier of the two.
Elsewhere
Long-form conversation on the Jim Rutt Show: Forrest Landry on Immanent Metaphysics, Part 1.
Published
The Formal Impossibility of AGI Safety: The Substrate Needs Convergence Argument
A formal proof that the safe development of artificial general intelligence is impossible -- not merely difficult or unlikely, but precluded by the mathematical structure of the problem itself. Drawing on information theory, computability theory, thermodynamics, dynamical systems, and game theory, the argument establishes that no alignment technique, governance regime, or containment strategy can provide reliable safety guarantees for systems exceeding human cognitive capabilities.
Is the safe development of artificial general intelligence formally possible? · Can any alignment technique, containment strategy, or governance regime provide reliable safety guarantees for systems exceeding human cognitive capabilities? · Does a sufficiently advanced AI substrate inevitably compete with biological systems for the same physical resources? · What are the mathematical limits of human control over computationally opaque systems? · What would a responsible civilizational response look like if AGI safety is provably impossible?
1 of 120 works in the catalog are published. The rest are in preparation.
About UVSM
UVSM Publications LLC is a scholarly publisher based in Wytheville, Virginia. Founded in 2026, UVSM publishes rigorous, original work across thirteen research areas.
All publications are freely accessible under a two-tier open access model: whitepapers and working papers are licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 to encourage scholarly engagement, while books and formal proofs are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 to protect the integrity of foundational arguments.
Nearly all of this work is by Forrest Landry, and most of it is still being prepared for publication.
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