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I retired at 36 after spending 14 years as an enterprise architect for Fortune 500 companies. For the last 13 years I’ve been working on one question that’s been quietly consuming me: what would a genuine post-scarcity society actually look like and what would it require?
That work eventually convinced me that aligned superintelligence is a necessary piece of the puzzle. Here’s the core idea that came out of it.
Instead of trying to align ASI to inconsistent human values, this approach aligns it to something more fundamental: objective good.
The core axiom is simple: a universe with carbon-based life is better than one without it. From this single axiom, we can derive virtues that reliably promote both individual and collective flourishing, including kindness, courage, compassion, humility, forgiveness, wisdom, curiosity, creativity, love, wonder, humor, and joy.
We train a separate model on each virtue, allowing each one to develop a deep, specialized understanding of that virtue. These virtues then compete and balance against each other, creating a dynamic and robust ethical system rather than a brittle rule set.
Rather than one centralized ASI, this system would exist as multiple independent instances, providing natural checks and balances. This approach optimizes for objective good rather than human obedience. Because what is truly good ultimately serves humanity’s long-term interests, it offers a more reliable path than traditional alignment methods.
I retired at 36 after spending 14 years as an enterprise architect for Fortune 500 companies. For the last 13 years I’ve been working on one question that’s been quietly consuming me: what would a genuine post-scarcity society actually look like and what would it require?
That work eventually convinced me that aligned superintelligence is a necessary piece of the puzzle. Here’s the core idea that came out of it.
Instead of trying to align ASI to inconsistent human values, this approach aligns it to something more fundamental: objective good.
The core axiom is simple: a universe with carbon-based life is better than one without it. From this single axiom, we can derive virtues that reliably promote both individual and collective flourishing, including kindness, courage, compassion, humility, forgiveness, wisdom, curiosity, creativity, love, wonder, humor, and joy.
We train a separate model on each virtue, allowing each one to develop a deep, specialized understanding of that virtue. These virtues then compete and balance against each other, creating a dynamic and robust ethical system rather than a brittle rule set.
Rather than one centralized ASI, this system would exist as multiple independent instances, providing natural checks and balances. This approach optimizes for objective good rather than human obedience. Because what is truly good ultimately serves humanity’s long-term interests, it offers a more reliable path than traditional alignment methods.