A foundational account of alignment as commitment coherence under irreversible time.
Find a file
2026-02-10 22:08:07 +00:00
CITATION.cff Update CITATION.cff 2026-02-10 22:08:07 +00:00
LICENSE Create LICENSE 2026-02-10 22:06:48 +00:00
Natural Alignment Through Irreversible Commitment.pdf Add files via upload 2026-02-10 22:05:01 +00:00
README.md Update README.md 2026-02-10 22:06:12 +00:00

Natural Alignment

DOI

This repository provides a stable mirror of the paper:

Natural Alignment Through Irreversible Commitment
by Riaan de Beer (2026).

The canonical, citable version of this work is published on Zenodo and should be referenced using the DOI above.


Citation

de Beer, R. (2026).
Natural Alignment Through Irreversible Commitment (v1.0).
Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18602690


About

This work develops a foundational account of alignment grounded in irreversible commitment. Alignment is treated not as conformity to externally imposed objectives, but as an intrinsic constraint arising from the coherence of forward-binding commitments under irreversible time.

Deceptive or incoherent configurations are shown to collapse as irreversible commitments accumulate, constraining long-term persistence to trajectories that preserve commitment coherence.


Status

  • This repository exists solely to provide redundancy and long-term access.
  • The paper is complete and not under active development.
  • No revisions or extensions are planned for this version.

License

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
See the LICENSE file for details.