The property wanted is a system that cannot quietly edit its own values away.
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Alignment researchers turn to a millennia-old interpretive tradition
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AI policy professionals began studying Jewish texts on the thesis that a tradition surviving millennia of adverse selection may know something about surviving recursive self-improvement, with one foundation hiring engineers versed in them because layered, self-referential reinterpretation preserves core values across civilizational resets.
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