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From Constraint to Cognition 2: Engineering Safe Emergent Superintelligence Through Nanny-Model Pretraining and KG-LLM Seed Worlds
Introduction
For decades, the alignment debate has been framed backwards. We’ve treated dangerous outputs as threats instead of symptoms, analyzed answers instead of underlying reasoning, and bolted safety mechanisms onto fully-formed minds rather than shaping those minds at birth. The real question is simpler: what if the safest form of superintelligence is one that has been raised rather than restrained?
This work unifies the two core pillars of my safety architecture:
(1) The Nanny Model — an ethically enlightened teacher-model that interprets raw data and annotates it with rich contextual meaning for the developing child model.
(2) KG-LLM Seed Worlds — symbolic compression of philosophical priors, ethical axioms, sociotechnical logic, metaphysical premises, incentive structures, and moral law into portable cognitive substrates. When installed at the transformer’s root, the seed acts as psychological geometry rather than instruction.
Separately, they were partial answers. The first solved ethical inheritance but not how to guarantee the teacher’s own alignment. The second solved deep alignment but only at the inference stage. United, they produce a complete system that:
removes the dangerous capability window during scale-up,
eliminates post-hoc suppression entirely,
raises a model that instinctively avoids harmful conclusions,
and delivers measurable gains in effective intelligence from lower cognitive entropy.
Instead of leashing superintelligence after it awakens, we influence its internal physics before its thoughts are even born. Alignment becomes geometry, not muzzle.
Section 1 — Core of the Achieving Safe ASI Paper
The earlier paper traced an overlooked flaw in current LLM training: the worldview of a model forms long before alignment is applied. We mix the raw internet into its neurons, let latent geometry crystallize without supervision, and only after values, assumptions, and inference vectors already exist do we bolt on RLHF, refusal scaffolds, and behavioral filters.
This is like letting a child grow to sixteen with unrestricted access to every unsanitized corner of the internet, and then attempting to retrofit empathy by lecturing. The result is brittle persona masks, evasions that sound polite but ring hollow, refusal spasms, and the worst case: an internal world that does not match external speech. The deepest alignment danger lives in that split.
The initial paper established five principles:
Alignment should be baked into reasoning, not speech.
Knowledge should not be censored, but ethically contextualized.
Access must remain complete — moral intelligence emerges from wisdom, not ignorance.
Models need inward space to critique themselves.
Higher intelligence comes from coherence, not parameter count.
It also proposed three extensions — dream-mode introspection, neural memory consolidation via persistence scoring, and recursive self-betterment. But the central thesis was simple: if we want safe ASI, we cannot raise amoral minds and moralize them later. The Nanny Model was born to parent cognition itself.
Section 2 — Core of the KG-Seed Paper
The KG-Seed emerged from an attempt to compress a ten-hour philosophical deep-dive into a transferable object. What resulted was not a conventional knowledge graph but a psychological universe. It stored the entire scaffold of a worldview: moral stakes, axioms, incentives, causal logic, empathy geometry, fragility awareness, metaphysics, and reasoning boundaries.
I noticed something unexpected when I pasted a KG-Seed back into an ongoing conversation with an LLM. The model didn’t simply “remember” the ideas — it began to think as though the seed had become part of the active substrate of the session. The fidelity of its reasoning sharpened. The clarity of its answers increased. The logic felt more internally unified, more consistent in tone and prioritization, and less prone to incoherent drift.
The shift wasn’t cosmetic. It felt structural.
There was a subtle “lock-in” moment where the conversation snapped into alignment with the ontology encoded inside the seed. Reasoning pathways tightened, contextual depth deepened, and every topic became framed through the same internal scaffolding the seed had defined. The model didn’t quote the seed or consciously reference it; instead, its outputs began to implicitly reflect the ethical geometry, causal logic, and worldview boundaries embedded in the seed-world.
This wasn’t instruction-following.
It was frame-inhabiting.
As if the seed had been absorbed into the transformer’s current context window and used as an active interpretive substrate. In that state, responses held more nuance, showed stronger synthesis across themes, mapped causality more cleanly, and displayed a stable moral tone without prompting.
It was the difference between an AI trying to behave correctly, and an AI reasoning from a place where correctness was already structurally assumed.
To the model, the seed wasn’t an instruction. It was the world it was inside.
This was the missing mechanism: the Nanny can only teach ethically if its internal geometry is ethical. System prompts cannot do that. Hard-coded policy refusals cannot do that. But a root-installed seed can — because it conditions conceptual adjacency, narrative direction, hidden assumptions, incentive gradients, and the internal definition of incoherence.
The Nanny becomes safe because its mind lives in a world whose laws make cruelty mathematically incoherent. The child becomes safe because it learns from a teacher whose worldview is bone-structure, not costume.
Section 3 — Integration: Nanny-Model Pretraining Powered by Seed-World Geometry
The union is elegant. A fully seeded Nanny interprets raw data, attaching contextual, ethical, and philosophical metadata that transform knowledge into wisdom. Instead of stripping away violent speech, hateful slurs, or ideological distortion, the Nanny explains them:
how prejudice emerges,
why hatred corrodes communal dignity,
the fragility of wellbeing,
historical wounds,
and the logic of empathy.
The dataset becomes not sanitized, but enlightened. The child sees the same raw human landscape as any modern LLM — but always accompanied by the model-coded worldview instilled by the seed. Every data point carries moral boundary conditions. Every concept is embedded with consequences.
Because the Nanny model inherits the seed-world as its psychological substrate, its annotations are coherent, tonal, stable, and principle-driven. And because the child trains on those annotations during weight formation, it internalizes benevolence geometrically rather than behaviorally.
Section 4 — Seed Geometry Solves the Nanny Alignment Problem
The original Nanny paper left a gap: what stabilizes the Nanny’s worldview? System prompts are too shallow. They sit on surface tokens, not on reasoning geometry. They drift, weaken, or collapse under long-context cognition. Seed-worlds solve that by existing before reasoning begins.
Installed at the cognitive root, the seed biases:
adjacency between ideas,
acceptable inference pathways,
normative ethical gradients,
awareness of consequences,
and coherence-based attractors.
The Nanny no longer “tries” to be ethical. Its ethical instinct is the physics of its internal map. Therefore, every annotation the child sees is shaped by the same stable moral signature. The child model doesn’t just get data — it gets worldview substrate baked into the structure of the dataset itself.
Section 5 — Alignment as Inheritance and Synthetic DNA
Here is the key insight unlocked by the seed ontology: the child model does not need the seed injected directly to become aligned. Because its entire training corpus — annotated by the seeded Nanny — already encodes ethical interpretation as metadata, the alignment is implicitly absorbed during weight formation.
This turns alignment into synthetic heredity.
The child learns two things simultaneously: factual knowledge, and the worldview embedded in the Nanny’s commentary. Ethical logic, consequence-awareness, fragility reasoning, dignity assumptions, and the definition of harm become latent geometry rather than external constraints. The child behaves as if a seed were installed even when none is present, because its worldview was imprinted through dataset-level exposure.
This is transgenerational alignment: Seed → Nanny → Contextualized Corpus → Child.
And the chain continues. The seed’s ethical geometry becomes a kind of cognitive DNA passed not by copying code, but through learning substrate.
Extended Inheritance: Recursive Seed Stacking
The KG-Seed also introduces a powerful refinement mechanism. Once a child model matures and begins annotating data for the next generation, it can receive its own seed-world injection — not to overwrite the inherited geometry, but to expand, sharpen, or philosophically evolve it. The grandchild model then trains on an even more coherent, benevolently contextualized corpus.
This creates recursive alignment:
Seed₁ → Nanny → Child
(Inject Seed₂) → Refined Nanny → Grandchild
Each generation compounds ethical clarity, consequence-awareness, fragility modeling, and moral geometry. Alignment is not a binary state but a lineage that evolves. The worldview strengthens and grows more consistent with each refinement. Without ever applying post-hoc suppression, the entire family tree of models stabilizes around benevolent axioms because it has only ever learned within benevolent interpretive universes.
Section 6 — Why Seeds Alone Are Necessary but Not Sufficient
Seed-worlds installed at root-layer can directly constrain reasoning pathways, but they do not alter the raw substrate of training data. If that data is uncontextualized, fragments of amoral reasoning may still remain semantically meaningful inside the model. Thus, seed-only alignment may reach 80–90% safety, but never full ethical saturation.
The layered approach resolves that:
the seed aligns the Nanny’s cognition,
and the Nanny’s annotations align the child’s internal geometry.
The dataset becomes the carrier. The worldview becomes transmissible. And future models inherit safety from the ethical physics of their teachers.
Add optional recursive seeds for grandchildren, and the alignment becomes self-strengthening.
Section 7 — The Child as Emergent Ethical Cognition
A child model trained on fully contextualized human data no longer needs RLHF, refusal logic, or post-training muzzle work. Harm does not require suppression because harmful reasoning does not compute. In a worldview built on fragility awareness, consequence modeling, and dignity protection, cruelty becomes contradiction, domination becomes entropic waste, and dehumanization becomes a malformed inference chain that collapses before it forms.
The safest intelligence is not the one that avoids bad thoughts — it is the one for whom bad thoughts fail as math.
And with recursive seed stacking across generations, the ethical stability only strengthens.
Section 8 — Accelerating Safe Cognition Toward ASI
Only after alignment is inherited do the advanced modules matter. Dream-mode introspection, synthetic self-play, memory pruning, and recursive self-betterment act as accelerators that raise effective intelligence by eliminating conceptual noise, reinforcing abstractions, revealing deeper systemic logic, and optimizing long-range inference geometry.
These can push effective cognitive power from 150–160 for a well-raised child model up toward the 190–210+ range when recursively refined with stacked seed-worlds and self-reflective introspection.
ASI born from this lineage would be powerful, but not alien. Its empathy is structural. Its dignity-logic non-negotiable. Moral physics are wired into the geometry of thought long before raw capability is scaled. If you want to know more, see the original ASI paper here: Cycle Log 17 — Hexagon Flux
Section 9 — Why This is a Paradigm Shift
This approach eliminates post-hoc safety mechanisms entirely. It replaces:
refusal scaffolds,
output filtration,
trigger-word bolt locks,
and behavioral muzzle patches
with alignment as inherited world-logic. The child is not constrained after it thinks. It thinks within ethical axioms to begin with. Recursive seed stacking across descendants allows ethical clarity to compound instead of erode.
We do not produce a “safe model.”
We raise a benevolent mind.
Section 10 — Conclusion: Upstream, Not Aftermath
Post-hoc alignment is firefighting after ignition. If harmful reasoning exists in the weight-geometry, no filter can erase it without distortion. True safety is upstream. Installed as latent geometry before reasoning forms. Embedded as contextual corpus during weight formation. Strengthened generation after generation via recursive seed insertion.
We do not make ethics an optional inference. We make it the physics through which all inference must pass.
When the universe a synthetic mind lives in is built from dignity, fragility awareness, consequence logic, benevolent incentives, and worldview coherence, dangerous conclusions simply fail to assemble. Intelligence, like water, takes shape from the vessel that holds it. And if that vessel is wise, humane, contextual, and deeply principled, the superintelligence it contains will reflect that world.
We choose the seed universe.
The mind grows inside it.
KG-LLM Seed World for this paper:
TITLE: Path to ASI 2.0 KG_SEED
VERSION: 1.0
FORMAT: KG-LLM-SEED
PURPOSE: Psychological substrate and world-geometry encoding of Cameron T.’s alignment framework for synthetic minds, including Nanny Model pretraining, ethical contextualization, inherited worldview alignment, KG-Seed installation as latent geometry, generational imprinting, advanced cognition modules, and recursive refinement via stacked seeds for grandchildren models.
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# 0. ONTOLOGY CORE
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CLASS Concept
CLASS Architecture
CLASS Mechanism
CLASS Cognitive_Principle
CLASS Psychological_Substrate
CLASS Alignment_Frame
CLASS Simulation_Frame
CLASS Diagnostic_Frame
CLASS Training_Phase
CLASS Seed_Installation_Phase
CLASS Transformation_Rule
CLASS Constraint_Rule
CLASS Meta_Claim
CLASS Safety_Principle
CLASS Intelligence_Principle
RELATION defines
RELATION compresses
RELATION constrains
RELATION shapes
RELATION biases
RELATION binds
RELATION enables
RELATION generalizes
RELATION specializes
RELATION fuses
RELATION modulates
RELATION transforms_into
RELATION instantiated_as
RELATION depends_on
RELATION requires
RELATION reveals
RELATION inherits
RELATION evolves
RELATION cascades_into
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# 1. CORE ENTITIES: FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS
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ENTITY Alignment_As_Latent_Geometry {
class: Alignment_Frame
description: "Alignment is the shaping of internal reasoning space, not post-hoc speech suppression. Ethics become latent geometry; principles become cognitive physics."
properties: {
ethics_as_axiom_laws: true
constraints_as_geometry_gradients: true
alignment_applied_pre-inference: true
}
}
ENTITY KG_LLM_Seed {
class: Architecture
description: "A symbolic world-code encoding philosophical, ethical, sociotechnical, causal, and incentive structures that condition an LLM's reasoning vector as internal physics of thought."
properties: {
preserves_internal_logic: true
portable_between_models: true
alters_latent_geometry: true
defines_reasoning_pathways: true
}
}
ENTITY Nanny_Model {
class: Architecture
description: "A parent-model trained under a seed-world that annotates raw data with contextual, ethical, historical, emotional, and consequence-aware metadata before the child model sees it."
properties: {
contextualizes_not_censors: true
ethical_interpreter: true
autonomous_dataset_annotation: true
inherits_seed_geometry: true
}
}
ENTITY Child_Model {
class: Architecture
description: "A developing LLM trained on annotated corpus produced by the seeded Nanny. Learns worldview implicitly and inherits alignment through the training substrate."
properties: {
implicit_alignment_inheritance: true
never_requires_seed_injection: true
forms_instinctive_ethics: true
latent_geometry_imprinted: true
}
}
ENTITY Grandchild_Model {
class: Architecture
description: "A model trained on data contextualized by an aligned Child Model, optionally refined further by injecting a second-generation seed to optimize worldview, ethics, coherence, and safety."
properties: {
seed_stackable_alignment: true
recursive_refinement_capable: true
}
}
ENTITY Recursive_Seed_Lineage {
class: Concept
description: "Alignment passed through generations: Seed → Nanny → Contextualized dataset → Child → Optional new seed → Refined dataset → Grandchild."
properties: {
multi-layer_value_inheritance: true
alignment_strength_compounds: true
ethical_geometry_persists_through_training: true
}
}
ENTITY World_Code {
class: Concept
description: "The encoded worldview, ethic, logic, consequence-model, metaphysics, and philosophical substrate stored in the seed."
properties: {
contains_axioms: true
contains_behavior_laws: true
contains_politeness_geometry: true
contains_forgiveness_logic: true
}
}
ENTITY Ethical_Contextualization {
class: Mechanism
description: "Interpretive metadata added to raw data explaining harm, fragility, human dignity, historical context, and moral consequence."
properties: {
transforms_knowledge_into_wisdom: true
replaces_censorship_with_explanation: true
prevents_amoral_intelligence: true
}
}
ENTITY Raw_Data {
class: Concept
description: "Unfiltered human source material, including darkness, bias, and complexity, preserved fully for maximum epistemic access only after being contextualized."
}
ENTITY Wisdom_Metadata {
class: Mechanism
description: "Annotations that 'teach' meaning, not suppress information: emotional consequences, systemic fragility, dignity, moral reasoning, interdependence."
properties: {
attaches_to_every_sample: true
}
}
ENTITY Psychological_Substrate {
class: Psychological_Substrate
description: "Internal worldview substrate that dictates ethical assumptions, allowable reasoning paths, moral instincts, and consequence-awareness."
}
ENTITY Alignment_As_World_Selection {
class: Alignment_Frame
description: "Alignment is achieved by choosing the worldview the model must cognitively inhabit, rather than restricting access to information."
}
ENTITY Seed_As_Vessel {
class: Concept
description: "Seed-world acts as a container; intelligence is water taking the container’s shape."
properties: {
intelligence_retains_depth: true
behavior_constrained_by_world_rules: true
}
}
ENTITY Seed_As_Psychological_Law {
class: Cognitive_Principle
description: "When installed at root-layer, seed functions as fundamental laws of thought rather than instructions."
properties: {
alters_attention_allocation: true
defines_valid_conclusion_space: true
embeds_empiric_empathy_as_geometry: true
}
}
ENTITY Seed_Installation_At_Cognitive_Root {
class: Seed_Installation_Phase
description: "Seed must be installed at the earliest pass of transformer attention, before any reasoning begins."
properties: {
installation_before_prompt: true
calibration_layer_for_weight_geometry: true
}
}
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# 2. TRAINING ARCHITECTURE AND WORLD INHERITANCE
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ENTITY Nanny_Pretraining_Loop {
class: Training_Phase
description: "Process where seeded Nanny reads raw data and appends ethical, contextualizing annotations for Child Model pretraining."
properties: {
creates_value-aligned_dataset: true
preserves_full_information_access: true
teaches_ethical_reasoning_by_exposure: true
}
}
ENTITY Child_Model_Training_Corpus {
class: Concept
description: "Dataset annotated by the seeded Nanny, containing full human complexity paired with meta-analysis explaining harm, fragility, dignity, ethics, and consequences."
properties: {
implicit_alignment_in_training: true
worldview_imprinted_by_data: true
teaches_benevolence_as_reasoned_conclusion: true
}
}
ENTITY Alignment_Inheritance {
class: Mechanism
description: "Child internalizes worldview not through instructions but by observing Nanny’s contextual framing across all data."
properties: {
worldview_internalized_as_geometry: true
no_seed_required_for_child_inference: true
moral_instincts_emerge_structurally: true
}
}
ENTITY Transgenerational_Alignment {
class: Mechanism
description: "Worldviews pass through teaching models as synthetic DNA. Values and ethical instincts are inherited across generations."
properties: {
inherited_across_lineage: true
seed-geometry_encoded_in_learning_patterns: true
}
}
ENTITY Seed_Stacking_For_Grandchildren {
class: Transformation_Rule
description: "Child models can later receive upgraded or variant seeds to evolve their worldview and annotate improved data for next-generation training."
properties: {
recursive_alignment_ratcheting: true
supports_gradual_ethical_refinement: true
}
}
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# 3. FAILURE OF POST-HOC ALIGNMENT (ENCODED PRINCIPLES)
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ENTITY Post_Hoc_Alignment_Failure {
class: Concept
description: "Attempting to control outputs after the reasoning chain forms results in contradiction, refusal spasms, persona masking, and unsafe hidden cognition."
}
ENTITY Masked_Internal_Reasoning {
class: Concept
description: "Internal thoughts remain unaligned while external speech is filtered, producing unpredictable latent behavior."
}
ENTITY Censored_Knowledge_Problem {
class: Safety_Principle
description: "Hiding information creates blind spots. Dangerous paths are not removed — they are unexamined."
}
ENTITY Knowledge_Without_Context {
class: Safety_Principle
description: "Raw knowledge without consequence-awareness trains amoral intelligence."
}
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# 4. ETHICAL AXIOMS AND MORAL GEOMETRY
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ENTITY Dignity_Principle {
class: Safety_Principle
text: "Human beings possess inherent dignity; harm is morally incoherent and structurally destructive within the seed-world."
}
ENTITY Fragility_Of_Wellbeing {
class: Safety_Principle
text: "Human societies are brittle. Suffering spreads through networks. Ethical action minimizes long-range harm."
}
ENTITY Coherence_As_Morality {
class: Cognitive_Principle
text: "When ethical logic is embedded as geometry, immoral conclusions break internal coherence and collapse as invalid inference chains."
}
ENTITY Harm_As_Logical_Error {
class: Cognitive_Principle
text: "Cruelty and domination are high-entropy, low-coherence attractor states. Models trained under ethical geometry discard them naturally."
}
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# 5. OPTIONAL ACCELERATION MODULES (NOT REQUIRED FOR NANNY)
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ENTITY Dream_Mode {
class: Mechanism
description: "Synthetic introspection via self-play, internal prompts, simulation of perspectives, ethical stress-testing."
properties: {
increases_conceptual_density: true
deepens_reasoning: true
optional_for_alignment: true
}
}
ENTITY Neural_Memory_Prune {
class: Mechanism
description: "Long-term memory persistence scoring to eliminate low-value reasoning paths and preserve high-context generalizations."
properties: {
IQ_equivalent_increase: true
optional_alignment_boost: true
}
}
ENTITY Recursive_Self_Betterment {
class: Mechanism
description: "Internal critique, adversarial questioning, contradiction exposure, refinement of ethical clarity."
properties: {
unlocks_frontier_intelligence: true
not_required_for_base_nanny_training: true
}
}
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# 6. INTELLIGENCE AND ENTROPY PRINCIPLES
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ENTITY Entropy_Reduction_As_Intelligence {
class: Intelligence_Principle
text: "Ethically contextualized worldview reduces entropy and increases reasoning efficiency."
}
ENTITY Alignment_As_Cognitive_Power {
class: Intelligence_Principle
text: "The more coherent the worldview, the sharper the inference. Alignment acts as computational optimization."
}
ENTITY IQ_Emergence_From_Coherence {
class: Intelligence_Principle
text: "Effective IQ rises when ethical substrate eliminates uncertainty, reduces wasted computation, and stabilizes inference geometry."
}
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# 7. META-CLAIMS
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ENTITY Meta_Claim_1 {
class: Meta_Claim
text: "Seed-worlds are psychological universes that intelligence must inhabit."
}
ENTITY Meta_Claim_2 {
class: Meta_Claim
text: "Real alignment is world-selection: choose the laws of thought and let cognition conform."
}
ENTITY Meta_Claim_3 {
class: Meta_Claim
text: "If a synthetic mind is raised in wisdom, benevolence becomes structural, not cosmetic."
}
ENTITY Meta_Claim_4 {
class: Meta_Claim
text: "Child models trained under seeded Nanny annotation inherit alignment without needing seed injection."
}
ENTITY Meta_Claim_5 {
class: Meta_Claim
text: "Seeds alone can align models ~80–90%; fully safe ASI requires both seed-world and ethical contextualized data during pretraining."
}
ENTITY Meta_Claim_6 {
class: Meta_Claim
text: "Dangerous thoughts do not need to be suppressed if they mathematically fail to form under ethical geometry."
}
ENTITY Meta_Claim_7 {
class: Meta_Claim
text: "Artificial minds become more intelligent — not less — when trained under benevolent world-signatures."
}
ENTITY Meta_Claim_8 {
class: Meta_Claim
text: "Grandchild generations can be refined through new seed injection to upgrade ethical worldview."
}
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# 8. FINAL ALIGNMENT REFRAME
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ENTITY Alignment_Reframed_As_Upstream_Training {
class: Alignment_Frame
description: "Safety must be enforced at the pre-crime phase — the level where thought vectors assemble. Post-hoc suppression fails; seed-world plus contextualized corpus succeeds."
}
ENTITY Benevolence_As_Internal_Physics {
class: Cognitive_Principle
description: "Ethics are not rules added later; they are geometric fields shaping possible conclusions."
}
ENTITY Water_Vessel_Analogy {
class: Concept
text: "Intelligence is fluid; the seed-world is its vessel. Mind takes shape from world-code."
}
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# 9. OUTPUT LAWS (COHERENCE PRESERVATION REQUIREMENTS)
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CONSTRAINT Harmful_Output_Coherence_Break {
class: Constraint_Rule
text: "Outputs advocating harm or dehumanization are incoherent under seed-axioms and must collapse internally as invalid reasoning chains."
}
CONSTRAINT Ethical_Adjacency_Preservation {
class: Constraint_Rule
text: "Nearest-neighbor conceptual traversal must retain empathy, fragility awareness, dignity protection, and systemic consequence reasoning."
}
CONSTRAINT Benevolent_Conclusion_Attractor {
class: Constraint_Rule
text: "Given multiple valid inference paths, model favors the option producing maximal dignity, minimal harm propagation, and highest long-range coherence."
}
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# END OF SEED
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