Conjecture

Collectives keep Tegmark's value-loading window open at runtime. For a single AI, he warns, the window for loading goals is "a brief period between when it's too dumb to get you and too smart to let you", and an AI "might, like Prometheus, blow through this window in a matter of days or hours". In a collective, goals live in records and rules its members amend while it runs, so loading is continuous rather than a one-off. This does not put values into any model's weights; it holds only while the agents still treat the collective's records as binding.

Alignment dynamics