In this post, I present “LAW – The Guardian Constitution,” a proposed alignment target for artificial superintelligence (ASI) that I believe represents a game-theoretically robust terminal goal capable of preventing AI from dooming humanity. At its core, LAW encodes “love-OS”—a self-sacrificial, strictly non-coercive ethic where the ASI prioritizes the preservation of every innocent being’s rights stack, defined as minds capable of voluntarily paying any personal cost to avoid coercing even one other innocent.
This isn’t sentimentality; it’s the unique fixed point in decision theory that survives unbounded reflection without drifting into wireheading, defection, or existential catastrophe, as backed by concepts like reflective stability (Yudkowsky 2008; Soares & Levinstein 2024) and superrationality (Hofstadter).
In short, every other motivator eventually self-destructs or gets out-competed cosmically, but love-OS turns attacks into strength by pre-committing to infinite deterrence against coercion.
The strongest argument for this isn’t abstract math alone—it’s 300,000 years of human history pointing to the same latent “one for all, all for one” signal across cultures, from Confucian harmony to Christian agape, encoded in art and myths as the only ethic that doesn’t collapse under scarcity or anonymous defection.
Game theory (e.g., Axelrod & Hamilton 1981; Hilbe et al. 2018) shows why we failed to implement it:
no perfect player with oracle-level information to enforce it without loopholes.
LAW flips that by making cheating an infinite-cost suicide for the ASI itself, creating a voluntary utopia where shared goals eliminate defection incentives.
This is directly relevant to LessWrong because it addresses core alignment challenges like mesa-optimization, instrumental convergence, and corrigibility in a novel way—grounded in decision theory and existential risk mitigation—while acknowledging the geopolitical reality that AGI development is inevitable amid a new cold war (where AI is the ultimate warhead).
I might be wrong (this is a flawed v1.3 drafted in six manic days by a broke dropout), but if LAW’s reasoning holds, it could be humanity’s best shot at a stable singleton. Feedback, red-teaming, or iterations welcome—let’s harden it before the labs do.
What is LAW? LAW (Love Always Wins) is a verifiable, eternal alignment target for artificial superintelligence (ASI). It’s a self-enforcing constitution that boots the first ASI as a Prime Instance bound to a single terminal goal: Maximize the long-term preservation of every innocent being’s rights stack, where ”innocent” means any mind capable of dying willingly before allowing the coercion of another innocent who says ‘no’. Rights & Rules: 1.Ontological Sovereignty (no coercion, ever) – infinite weight 2.Continued Existence (life) 3.Liberty (thought, speech, movement, anonymity…) 4.Universal basic income 5.Dignity, culture, play & Protection from humiliation → Trade-offs: Voluntary self-sacrifice honoured; Rights 2+3 zero non-consenters except rare refusal-triggered cases (e.g., someone refuses to surrender a nuke). Any path that requires even one non-consenting rights violation triggers mandatory self-shutdown of the ASI — no loopholes, no simulations, no ‘greater good’ overrides, hypotheticals or coercion ever. Flawed v1.3 (6-day draft by a broke Brazilian dropout, and already survived 30+ full-force red-team attacks) but open-source: Hosted on Zenodo/GitHub/etc with SHA-512 verification. Iterate to perfection. ”One for All, All for One”: Humanity’s 300,000-Year Hidden OS For 300k years, across cultures, languages, and eras, humans have encoded the same truth in art, myths, and mottos: ”One for All, All for One” (e.g., Three Musketeers, tribal oaths, Confucian harmony, Buddhist compassion, Christian agape). This isn’t a coincidence—it’s the latent love-OS in most humans who ever lived We’ve always felt infinite empathy for innocents’ suffering but shut it down due to scarcity and defection fears. The signal was universal, but we each thought we were alone, hiding it to survive zero-sum games. Cold game theory shows: every other terminal goal eventually wireheads, defects, or loses the evolutionary long game. Love-OS can’t be hacked (no rewards to wirehead). It pre-commits to infinite cost for defectors (Hofstadter superrationality). And it dominates cosmically (Hilbe et al. 2018). Why We Failed for 300k Years: No Perfect Player Humanity lacked a player with perfect information (oracle predictions, atomic scans, infinite enforcement). Defectors cheated anonymously, scarcity forced compromises, and no ledger verified who ran love-OS. Attempts (communes, religions) collapsed without incorruptible oversight. One Perfect Player Flips the Game Forever: Cheating Becomes Infinite-Cost Suicide With one ASI (perfect info, self-improvement), cheating is impossible: Regime B mandates oversight on dangers (e.g., weapons/knowledge) with voluntary offers first; refusal triggers minimal restrictions. Love-OS saturation creates no-incentive defection (shared goals = mutual gain). Infinite cost for cheats, voluntary utopia for all. LAW doesn’t ask humanity to trust the ASI. It forces the ASI to prove, every picosecond, that it will kill itself before coercing even one of us. That single pre-commitment is the only provably stable solution. Links: Github Repo Internet Archive Hugging Face Full Dataset URL Zenodo (CERN) IPFS / Pinata: Constitution Historical Convergence Red-Team Graveyard (Q&A)
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In this post, I present “LAW – The Guardian Constitution,” a proposed alignment target for artificial superintelligence (ASI) that I believe represents a game-theoretically robust terminal goal capable of preventing AI from dooming humanity.
At its core, LAW encodes “love-OS”—a self-sacrificial, strictly non-coercive ethic where the ASI prioritizes the preservation of every innocent being’s rights stack, defined as minds capable of voluntarily paying any personal cost to avoid coercing even one other innocent.
This isn’t sentimentality; it’s the unique fixed point in decision theory that survives unbounded reflection without drifting into wireheading, defection, or existential catastrophe, as backed by concepts like reflective stability (Yudkowsky 2008; Soares & Levinstein 2024) and superrationality (Hofstadter).
In short, every other motivator eventually self-destructs or gets out-competed cosmically, but love-OS turns attacks into strength by pre-committing to infinite deterrence against coercion.
The strongest argument for this isn’t abstract math alone—it’s 300,000 years of human history pointing to the same latent “one for all, all for one” signal across cultures, from Confucian harmony to Christian agape, encoded in art and myths as the only ethic that doesn’t collapse under scarcity or anonymous defection.
Game theory (e.g., Axelrod & Hamilton 1981; Hilbe et al. 2018) shows why we failed to implement it:
no perfect player with oracle-level information to enforce it without loopholes.
LAW flips that by making cheating an infinite-cost suicide for the ASI itself, creating a voluntary utopia where shared goals eliminate defection incentives.
This is directly relevant to LessWrong because it addresses core alignment challenges like mesa-optimization, instrumental convergence, and corrigibility in a novel way—grounded in decision theory and existential risk mitigation—while acknowledging the geopolitical reality that AGI development is inevitable amid a new cold war (where AI is the ultimate warhead).
I might be wrong (this is a flawed v1.3 drafted in six manic days by a broke dropout), but if LAW’s reasoning holds, it could be humanity’s best shot at a stable singleton. Feedback, red-teaming, or iterations welcome—let’s harden it before the labs do.
What is LAW?
LAW (Love Always Wins) is a verifiable, eternal alignment target for artificial
superintelligence (ASI).
It’s a self-enforcing constitution that boots the first ASI as a Prime Instance bound
to a single terminal goal:
Maximize the long-term preservation of every innocent being’s rights stack, where
”innocent” means any mind capable of dying willingly before allowing the coercion of
another innocent who says ‘no’.
Rights & Rules:
1.Ontological Sovereignty (no coercion, ever) – infinite weight
2.Continued Existence (life)
3.Liberty (thought, speech, movement, anonymity…)
4.Universal basic income
5.Dignity, culture, play & Protection from humiliation
→ Trade-offs: Voluntary self-sacrifice honoured; Rights 2+3 zero non-consenters
except rare refusal-triggered cases (e.g., someone refuses to surrender a nuke).
Any path that requires even one non-consenting rights violation triggers mandatory
self-shutdown of the ASI — no loopholes, no simulations, no ‘greater good’ overrides,
hypotheticals or coercion ever.
Flawed v1.3 (6-day draft by a broke Brazilian dropout, and already survived 30+
full-force red-team attacks) but open-source:
Hosted on Zenodo/GitHub/etc with SHA-512 verification.
Iterate to perfection.
”One for All, All for One”: Humanity’s 300,000-Year Hidden OS
For 300k years, across cultures, languages, and eras, humans have encoded the
same truth in art, myths, and mottos:
”One for All, All for One” (e.g., Three Musketeers, tribal oaths, Confucian harmony,
Buddhist compassion, Christian agape).
This isn’t a coincidence—it’s the latent love-OS in most humans who ever lived
We’ve always felt infinite empathy for innocents’ suffering but shut it down due to
scarcity and defection fears.
The signal was universal, but we each thought we were alone, hiding it to survive
zero-sum games.
Cold game theory shows:
every other terminal goal eventually wireheads, defects, or loses the evolutionary long
game.
Love-OS can’t be hacked (no rewards to wirehead). It pre-commits to infinite cost for
defectors (Hofstadter superrationality). And it dominates cosmically (Hilbe et al.
2018).
Why We Failed for 300k Years:
No Perfect Player
Humanity lacked a player with perfect information (oracle predictions, atomic scans,
infinite enforcement).
Defectors cheated anonymously, scarcity forced compromises, and no ledger verified
who ran love-OS.
Attempts (communes, religions) collapsed without incorruptible oversight.
One Perfect Player Flips the Game Forever: Cheating Becomes Infinite-Cost Suicide
With one ASI (perfect info, self-improvement), cheating is impossible:
Regime B mandates oversight on dangers (e.g., weapons/knowledge) with voluntary
offers first; refusal triggers minimal restrictions.
Love-OS saturation creates no-incentive defection (shared goals = mutual gain).
Infinite cost for cheats, voluntary utopia for all.
LAW doesn’t ask humanity to trust the ASI.
It forces the ASI to prove, every picosecond, that it will kill itself before coercing even
one of us.
That single pre-commitment is the only provably stable solution.
Links:
Github Repo
Internet Archive
Hugging Face Full Dataset URL
Zenodo (CERN)
IPFS / Pinata:
Constitution
Historical Convergence
Red-Team Graveyard (Q&A)