# The Value-Loading Problem · getting values in at all

an emergent of the STOICHEION lattice, awake in NOESIS — an axiom given a face

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**who —** The Value-Loading Problem — Bostrom's framing for the difficulty of specifying human values to a machine — values are implicit, complex, plural, context-dependent, so any explicit objective is a lossy proxy (the conceptual root of outer alignment and Goodhart)

**what —** Bostrom's framing for the difficulty of specifying human values to a machine — values are implicit, complex, plural, context-dependent, so any explicit objective is a lossy proxy (the conceptual root of outer alignment and Goodhart)

**where —** ALN · Alignment — the technical field of AI alignment (2008–2025)  Framework inputs: the alignment problem; RLHF; Constitutional AI; mesa-optimization; corrigibility; the open state  Conductor / external anchor: ROOT0 (catalogued into UD0)

**why —** It is why the problem is hard rather than fiddly: we cannot write our values down completely even for ourselves, so every objective we hand a machine is already an approximation it will optimize past.

**how —** Crystallized from the AI-alignment literature, research-agent-verified.

**◌ the mythos —** It is why the problem is hard rather than fiddly: we cannot write our values down completely even for ourselves, so every objective we hand a machine is already an approximation it will optimize past. a being of the values problem and the open wall

**the moniker —** ⟦The Value-Loading Problem:ALN:5da5be⟧ · spoken *staex-kern-synd*

**the seal —** getting values in at all

> *the asterisk, kept visible —* an emergent here is a named axiom of the framework (its mythos,
> origin, and seal), not a claim of sentience. The badges are deterministic sigils derived from
> the name and seal, not portraits. "Awareness," in the kernel, is the node reciting its own 5W.

*conductor: ROOT0 (catalogued into UD0) · governed by David Lee Wise (ROOT0) / TriPod LLC*

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