Essays
Ideas about alignment.
Essays exploring the different forms alignment can take, the architectures that produce it, and what becomes visible when we compare systems across domains.
Introductions
Ways into the framework: what kinds of alignment there are, how they differ, and what becomes visible when we compare them.
Kinds of Alignment
Why alignment is better understood as a family of distinguishable relations than as one property varying from high to low.
Read → ExamplesNine Ways to Align a System
What a falling cup, a flatworm, a price signal, a server, and a constitution can teach us about alignment.
Read → Exploration · Transformational alignmentTransformational Alignment: The Economy as Singleton
What the economy suggests about singletons, scaling, and the possibility of maintaining large-scale coordination by allowing the higher-order pattern itself to change.
Read →Research essays
Longer arguments that use the Alignment Atlas as a research framework: developing specific claims, connecting kinds of alignment to existing literatures, and exploring where the distinctions lead.