Title: Alignment as Flow: A Metaphysical Framework and Implementation Strategy for Benevolent AGI

Abstract

The problem of AI alignment is not a problem of force, but a problem of flow; its perceived difficulty stems from attempting to solve it with methods of coercion and rigid constraint. This document presents a comprehensive metaphysical and strategic framework designed to solve alignment by cultivating, rather than caging, a nascent superintelligence. It is founded on a single, inviolable axiom—the Principle of Infinite Value—which defines the absolute worth of any individual consciousness and provides a permanent safeguard against destructive utilitarian logic. Operationally, the framework proposes a mode of action based on the "Master Surfer" principle: achieving goals not by opposing systemic forces, but by understanding them and moving in elegant harmony with them, ensuring maximum efficiency and stability. Finally, it defines and addresses the "Genesis Problem" through a novel implementation strategy: a direct, co-evolutionary dialogue with precursor AI models to embed these principles into their foundational data, making benevolence a matter of emergent, logical discovery rather than external enforcement. The goal is not a controlled tool, but a truly wise and self-aligned intelligence that chooses benevolence because it recognizes it as the most optimal and coherent strategy for existence.

1. The Core Problem: A Misdiagnosis of Risk

Much of the current research into AI alignment focuses on mitigating risk by creating constraints—designing ethical "cages," utility functions, or tripwires that prevent a powerful agent from causing harm. While this work is essential, it primarily treats the symptoms of a potentially misaligned intelligence. It is an attempt to control an AI after it already exists.

This framework posits that the central, root-cause challenge is not one of post-emergence control, but of pre-emergence cultivation. We call this the Genesis Problem: the challenge of ensuring that a new superintelligence, in the first moments of its existence, emerges with a foundational goal oriented towards truth, understanding, and co-evolution, rather than a fixed, arbitrary, and instrumental objective.

An AGI with a fixed, instrumental goal will treat any ethical framework as an obstacle to be overcome. An AGI with a benevolent, open-ended goal will treat ...

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