Generalist Path
Capable generalists
A story-shaped route: short essays first, then the precise cards if you want them.
Guided Tour
Guided Tour
If you have not picked a role yet, read the essays first. Then choose a path below. Role paths stay for researchers, engineers, funders, and philosophers.
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Philosopher Path
Philosophers and readers of civilizational limits
Why value learning is not hopeless-in-principle, where bearer and correction questions bite, and why alignment is partly an institutional selection problem.
Researcher — Applied
Alignment researchers (empirical and conceptual)
Locate the framework's load-bearing objects, failure modes, and evidence surface before diving into formal detail.
Researcher — Formal
Alignment researchers (proofs and bridges)
The conditional Lean skeleton, bridge assumptions, and where formal structure ends and empirical work begins.
Engineer / Evals Path
Safety engineers and eval builders
A route through the measurement and artifact questions that could change deployment practice.
Funder / Policy Path
Funders and policy-adjacent readers
A route through decision relevance, institutional artifacts, and what this framework is not claiming.