Beethoven's Heiligenstadt Testament Proposed as AI Alignment Training Material

A blogger proposed using Beethoven's Heiligenstadt Testament, written after he resolved to live for art despite deafness, as mid-training material for AI alignment. Commenters likened his midlife crisis to a model's midtraining phase of finding purpose amid adversity.

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