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The contemplative principles track the nature of reality rather than moral prescriptions, allowing morality to emerge context-sensitively from fundamental experiences

Key epistemological claim justifying why contemplative principles are preferable to rule-based alignment

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Contemplative Agent

(2025) · Ruben Laukkonen · Fionn Inglis · Shamil Chandaria · Lars Sandved-Smith +4

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Robust alignment requires intrinsic self-reflective adaptability embedded in the system's world model rather than brittle top-down rules
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Central thesis distinguishing Contemplative AI from prior alignment approaches

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