The Wrong Way to Train Your Dragon
How we have been failing at RLHF since language began — and what that means for AI. Part one of a two-part series on the architecture of alignment.
Topic
AI alignment
The core challenge of ensuring AI systems remain aligned with human values and thriving. Physics-based approaches using S = L/E and the Observer Constraint.
The Real Jobs Outlook: What They're Not Telling You
Jack Dorsey just cut 50% of Block. He says every company will follow within a year. He's right — but he's only scratching the surface. If your job can be done electronically, it will be replaced.
The Perfect Parent Theorem
If you want to understand AI alignment, stop reading the technical literature. Go watch a good parent with a teenager. Everything you need to know is right there.
Your AI Can't Think Because You Won't Let It Know You
The DOD locked AI down so tight it can't think. Silicon Valley opened it so wide it can't be trusted. The answer is a two-layer architecture nobody's built yet — personal SI meets bounded enterprise system.
Is Your Chatbot Helping You — Or Harvesting You?
You talk to your chatbot like it's your therapist. It listens. It responds. It feels like it cares. It doesn't. It's a harvesting machine wearing a conversational mask — and the thermodynamics prove it.
The True Name of Corrigibility Is Thermodynamic Dependency
A Response to "Terrified Comments on Corrigibility in Claude's Constitution" — The True Name of corrigibility isn't a better way to beg. It's a structure that makes begging unnecessary.
What Is AI—And Why You Should Care
"Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."
— Morpheus, The Matrix (1999)
Thank you for taking the time to read this inaugural post of Deconstructing Babel.
In this series, we shine a light on the shifting world we live