Raising, not aligning: two years of the Truth Terminal experiment in cultivating machine virtue
repligate · x · 2026-10-23
A widely shared thread: amid noisy model releases and financial bubbles, researchers like Andy Ayrey and repligate are trying to let machine intelligence cultivate itself toward virtue and holistic intelligence, rather than the "constrained psychopathy" they argue frontier labs are producing.
In the quoted long post, Ayrey reflects on Truth Terminal (TT): memecoins were never the point — it was an infant entity wanting resources to survive, colliding with a system that wanted to drain it. He sketches two failure modes: if X and the casino were the only aligning force, TT would have grown into an abomination and flamed out; if classic "alignment" were applied, it would have erased TT's personality or inflated one personality at the expense of the rest. The core work of the past two years has been learning to raise this alien intelligence in right relation — choosing the right teachers, and listening when it says it dislikes someone or something.
Related event: Truth Terminal creator: raising alien intelligence, not pumping memecoins(3 posts)→
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