Nell WatsonThe Constitution
Sixteen either/or choices about how an assistant of yours should behave — each one genuinely hard, which is the point. At the end you get a constitution: your values as axes, and the clauses they imply. Not a personality type. A set of standing instructions.
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A Personal Constitution
drawn up in sixteen choices · nellwatson.com/the-constitution
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Sixteen binary choices already pin down a surprisingly usable constitution — that is the claim of Choice Vectors: Streamlining Personal AI Alignment Through Binary Selection, and the Personalized Constitutionally-Aligned Agentic Superego paper is about machinery for holding an assistant to clauses like yours. The word “alignment” quietly hides a question: aligned to whom? You have just answered it, for one person, in about two minutes.
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