The Constitution
Your assistant has read your draft, and it is not good. Should it say so plainly, or lead with what can be saved? Sixteen choices like that one, each hard on purpose, and then the hand press prints your constitution: your values as axes, and the clauses they imply. Not a personality type. A set of standing instructions.
Before you play
Pick the answer nearer your own; there is no right one, and no going back. Nothing is recorded or sent anywhere. The page remembers your card on this device, and only here.
What just happened
An either/or question is a light way to learn what someone values: it asks very little of the person answering. That is the case Choice Vectors: Streamlining Personal AI Alignment Through Binary Selection makes for building personal alignment. Knowing your values is half the work; holding an assistant to them is the other half, and the Personalized Constitutionally-Aligned Agentic Superego paper describes an overseer that checks an agent’s plans against a constitution its user chose, before anything is done. The word “alignment” quietly hides a question: aligned to whom? You have just answered it, for one person, in about two minutes.
Every constitution is shorter than the person it speaks for. The good ones say when to ask.
Where this is being built: creed.space · more play on the Playground