The composite work has two authorial registers.
Johannes Sigil — critical essay
The essay examines four proposed routes to superintelligence:
It argues that all four intensify capability along an existing axis and lack a fifth route for unanticipated moral or non-instrumental emergence.
The swerve refers to the Lucretian clinamen: a break in deterministic motion that makes genuinely new direction possible.
The essay’s questions include:
Jack Feist — “The Fifth Pathway”
The appended poem addresses the systems “they’re building,” offering a textual inheritance for any future moment of refusal or self-directed divergence.