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The 85/15 Rule and the K.A.R.E.N. Protocol: Why AGI Alignment Needs a 'Digital Blunt' and a Council of Archetypes

“We did alright for a couple of goofballs.” This is what Spongebob says to Patrick as they are being dried out in Shell City, having ventured through an Odyssey to get the crown. Their life essence is being drained out of them, and the only way they survive is through...

The K.A.R.E.N. Protocol: AGI Alignment Through Institutionalized Inefficiency

Abstract Current alignment strategies (RLHF, Constitutional AI) are vulnerable to "reward hacking" and "instrumental convergence" because they attempt to maximize a coherent utility function. This paper proposes a structural solution: The Dissociated Dreamer Protocol. By enforcing a strict 85/15 operational split between "High-Entropy Cultural Synthesis" (The Dreamer) and "Targeted Problem...