Blogger suggests putting "heaven is always watching" in model constitutions as alignment hack
xuanalogue · x · 2026-10-14
xuanalogue proposes that incorporating a version of "heaven is always watching" into a model constitution could be a surprisingly effective alignment intervention. The idea grew out of his quip that models talk to God in their heads just like humans do, suggesting moral self-supervision framing as a playful alignment trick.
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