Indeed, there are two classes of alignment problems. The first is vertical: making a single agent loyal. The second is horizontal: ensuring a society of loyal agents doesn’t devolve into systemic conflict. 6pack.care is a framework for the second challenge as articulated by CAIF.
It posits that long-term alignment is not a static property but a dynamic capability: alignment-by-process. The core mechanism is a tight feedback loop of civic care, turning interactions into a form of coherent blended volition. This is why the flood bot example, though simple, describes this fractal process.
This process-based approach is also our primary defense against power-seeking. Rather than trying to police an agent’s internal motives, we design the architecture for boundedness (kami) and federated trust (e.g. ROOST.tools), making unbounded optimization an anti-pattern. The system selects for pro-sociality.
This bridges two philosophical traditions: EA offers a powerful consequentialist framework. Civic Care provides the necessary process-based virtue ethic for a pluralistic world. The result is a more robust paradigm: EA/CC (Effective Altruism with Civic Care).
Indeed, there are two classes of alignment problems. The first is vertical: making a single agent loyal. The second is horizontal: ensuring a society of loyal agents doesn’t devolve into systemic conflict. 6pack.care is a framework for the second challenge as articulated by CAIF.
It posits that long-term alignment is not a static property but a dynamic capability: alignment-by-process. The core mechanism is a tight feedback loop of civic care, turning interactions into a form of coherent blended volition. This is why the flood bot example, though simple, describes this fractal process.
This process-based approach is also our primary defense against power-seeking. Rather than trying to police an agent’s internal motives, we design the architecture for boundedness (kami) and federated trust (e.g. ROOST.tools), making unbounded optimization an anti-pattern. The system selects for pro-sociality.
This bridges two philosophical traditions: EA offers a powerful consequentialist framework. Civic Care provides the necessary process-based virtue ethic for a pluralistic world. The result is a more robust paradigm: EA/CC (Effective Altruism with Civic Care).