On some measures, such as honesty and resistance to malicious 'prompt injection' attacks, Opus 4.7 is an improvement on Opus 4.6; in others (such as its tendency to give overly detailed harm-reduction advice on controlled substances), Opus 4.7 is modestly weaker.

Today's large language models (LLMs) are trained to align with user preferences through methods such as reinforcement learning. Yet models are beginning to be deployed not merely to satisfy users, but also to generate revenue for the companies that created them through advertisements

Our key finding is that these representations causally influence the LLM's outputs, including Claude's preferences and its rate of exhibiting misaligned behaviors such as reward hacking, blackmail, and sycophancy.

Emotion vector activations across post-training

it is impossible for developers to specify how the Assistant should behave in every possible scenario. In order to play the role effectively, LLMs draw on the knowledge they acquired during pretraining, including their understanding of human behavior

Large language models (LLMs) sometimes appear to exhibit emotional reactions. We investigate why this is the case in Claude Sonnet 4.5 and explore implications for alignment-relevant behavior.

we demonstrate that when the Assistant is asked to choose between two activities, emotion vector activations evoked by the two choices correlate with, and causally drive, the model's preference.

Functional emotions may work quite differently from human emotions, and do not imply that LLMs have any subjective experience of emotions, but appear to be important for understanding the model's behavior.

A "Chinese Communist Party Alignment" feature found in the Qwen3-8B and DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B models. This controls pro-government censorship and propaganda in these Chinese-developed models, and is absent in the American models we compared them against.

model alignment alone does not reliably guarantee the safety of autonomous agents.

model alignment alone does not reliably guarantee the safety of autonomous agents

I've had the same issue after taking mine completely apart. I can see the the a is too high, and the o and p are too low. This will happen the the type guide isn't in the correct position, and on your machine, it looks like it needs to be adjusted to the right, to bring the left side of the kb down, and the right side up. It's a fiddly process, and a small adjustment makes a big difference, so take it slow. Use the q and p keys as they are further apart on the segment. Give it a try and come back here to show the results.

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Such a work would treat alignment as institutional design rather than a property of models alone.

Alignment as an operational problem. The book assumes that sufficiently advanced intelligences would recognize the value of cooperation, pluralism, and shared goals. A decade of observing misaligned incentives in human institutions amplified by algorithmic systems makes it clear that this assumption requires far more rigorous treatment. Alignment is not a philosophical preference. It is an engineering, economic, and institutional problem.

it's it's a it's a very sophisticated Ponzi scheme.

I think scientific publishing is a misdirection game.

you can adjust the strike of individual typebars by either filing or peening the ring-stop tab, file to hit harder & peen to lighten it. for your situation, you will want to file the ring-stop down a bit; make sure to tilt the machine up(or on its side) so the debris created doesn’t fall down into the pivot segment, then blow the area out with compressed air. if you go to Hobby Lobby or an RC model shop, you should be able to get a cheap set of needle files which will do the job; follow up with 600-800 grit sandpaper to remove burrs

roller pliers are for adjusting the height of individual letters(increasing the arc to lower & decreasing arc to raise, which in extreme case can then require adjustment of the slug to put it ‘square’ again relative to the platen) adjusting the strike for most models is done by either filing or peening the ring-stop tab near the base of the typebar(as is the case for OP’s smith corona)

Dolettersin alinesometimesstart nicely,thenrundownhill?Thiscan’thappenifyouuse theline-spacinglever,insteadofrollingthepaper throughwiththecylinderknob.Inthelatter case, the rollerthatlocksthespacingofthe linesmaycometorest on topofaratchettooth,insteadofsettlingbetweentwoofthem.Whenthemachinestarts, thevibration graduallyjarsthecylinderarounduntilitreachesitsnormal position—droppinglettersasitturns.

Check the alignment of the type by striking eachcharacter between the straight-sided letter "N"

with the Verve foundation's help we set up ecologies of practices uh we have a practice called dialectic into dialogos that helps people get into mutually shared flow states of cognitive exploration and people discover collective intelligence as something that is phenomenologically present and almost agentic in what's happening

To use an extreme and blunt example, if an AI were tasked to stop global warming it might suggest to simply remove all the humans; that might get the job done (solve the task) but not in a way that is aligned with the intent (solve climate change while preserving human life).

the alignment problem

One of the first thing I noticed was the rubber on this foot was sticking. This is the resting spot for the basket shift. Moving it up or down will adjust where the lower case letters strike the platen. I removed the old sticky rubber. There are two adjustments here, you can’t see the other one, but it’s looks the same. One is for lower case letters the other is for upper case. This is called the “on feet” adjustment. If you ever have the top of an upper case letter not imprinting or not level with the lower case letters, look at this adjustment. A good way to tell is to type HhHh, and see if the bottoms of the letters line up.

essential Aliveness,

We need a reset.

Common objective on a local level, like a specific problemNeighbourhood cooperation to build better relationships, without a specific objectiveAn individual takes the initiative to build a neighbourhood community, driven by a visionof a better world.

Safety & alignment

According to him, there are several goals connected to AI alignment that need to be addressed:

This book takes an entirelyfresh approach by focusing on globalization’s inner aspects – the way wethink and feel about it as individuals and as cultures and how it impedesour ability to solve global problems.

argumentation mapping allows large on-line groups toinvestigate very complex issues, such as climate change, by linking issues with arguments andcounterarguments in a growing public network (Iandoli, Klein, & Zollo, 2009; Klein, 2011).

coordination can be defined as the arrangement of actions across people,places and times so as maximize synergy and minimize friction. In earlier work (Heylighen, 2012b),we have analyzed coordination into four components: alignment, division of labor, workflow andaggregation.

Their alignment rule is based on the principle that any primitiveobject of K bytes must have an address that is a multiple of K.

Learning Map and clear Overarching Learning Goals

Overarching Learning Goals that are achievable for your students

The Business Strategy stems from a detailed strategic planning process. However, the question we want to answer in this article is whether we can execute multiple strategies side by side while they do not interfere with each other. We compare multiple strategies for business, information provision and IT and focus on Strategic planning.

The problem is, algorithms were never designed to handle such tough choices. They are built to pursue a single mathematical goal, such as maximizing the number of soldiers’ lives saved or minimizing the number of civilian deaths. When you start dealing with multiple, often competing, objectives or try to account for intangibles like “freedom” and “well-being,” a satisfactory mathematical solution doesn’t always exist.

many other systems that are already here or not far off will have to make all sorts of real ethical trade-offs

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Every element shouldhave some visual connection with another element on the page. This createsa clean and sophisticated look.

when courts in the UK or the EU interpret provisions of national legislation intended to give effect to the agreements, they could take into account the relevant case law of the courts of the other party.

The agreed rule changes would also need to be given effect in UK law through domestic legislation. The UK Parliament would scrutinise this legislation in accordance with normal legislative procedure, respecting the principle that a sovereign Parliament has complete control over domestic law. This means that the UK Parliament could decide not to give effect to the change in domestic law, but this would be in the knowledge that it would breach the UK's international obligations, and the EU could raise a dispute and ultimately impose non-compliance measures.

the Joint Committee would consider whether a proposed new or amended UK rule remained equivalent with the EU’s existing rule, or an existing UK rule remained equivalent to a proposed new or amended EU rule.

There would therefore always be an option for the rule not to be added

where there is a common rulebook, these rules can be relied on by individuals and businesses and enforced by UK and EU courts in the same way, because they have been interpreted consistently;

what the student does in order to learn

It is surrounded by farms and windmills!

Therefore, beloved friend, when you judge, you have moved out of alignment with what is true. You have decreed that the innocent are not innocent. And if you would judge another as being without innocence, you have already declared that this is true about you. Therefore, to practice forgiveness actually cultivates the quality of consciousness in which, finally, you come to forgive yourself. And it is, indeed, the forgiven who remember their God.