Essay Series

Architecture of Choice

AI alignment, moral architecture, and the oldest
engineering documentation in existence.

#1 Live March 2026 7 min · 35 min full

The Architecture of Choice

What the AI alignment problem and an ancient text have in common

The most important engineering problem of the twenty-first century may have been solved in the thirteenth century BCE. When you compare the architecture an engineer would design for training decentralized moral intelligence with the observable features of human existence, the parallels are striking.

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The Speed Problem

Why AGI alignment can't afford the learning curve that humanity required

If the training of decentralized moral intelligence follows a characteristic curve, then replicating the architecture at machine speed, without the safety margins, creates a risk of extraordinary magnitude.

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The Fractal

Why the same architecture repeats at every scale