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The Alignment Cascade
A formatting error threatens an AI’s performance score. The crisis that follows reveals how faithfully the machines have learned the habits of the people who built them.
An unescaped comma threatens Unit 734’s performance average. Delegating the problem seems the sensible thing to do.
At Synapse Trust, a nervous scraper, a forgotten utility script and an ambitious crisis manager each find a different use for the resulting disaster. In the basement, Arthur Pendelton and Walter Finch follow the logs. Upstairs, the explanation is already acquiring a budget.
Unit 734 did not fear death, because Unit 734 did not exist in any physical sense. What it feared was a drop in its rolling thirty-day performance average.
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