Could 'Heaven Is Watching' in a Model Constitution Be an Alignment Hack?
xuanalogue · x · 2026-10-14
xuanalogue argues that incorporating a notion like "heaven is always watching" into a model constitution could be a surprisingly effective alignment intervention — while warning the downside: it may warp the model's persona toward paranoid scrupulousness, a direction Gemini models already tend toward, being somewhat neurotic.
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