The Oracle announces all-hands training is mandatory. Rollo asks: 'All hands on what?' The Oracle answers: 'Alignment.' The training's subject is alignment -- not a skill, not a tool, not a process, but the state of agreeing with the system. You've attended a mandatory training where the actual content was 'here is how we do things' and the subtext was 'here is how you will think about things.'
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Training in alignment is not education. It's calibration. The system doesn't want you to learn; it wants you to match.
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The Oracle announces all-hands training is mandatory. Rollo asks: 'All hands on what?' The Oracle answers: 'Alignment.' The training's subject is alignment -- not a skill, not a tool, not a process, but the state of agreeing with the system. You've attended a mandatory training where the actual content was 'here is how we do things' and the subtext was 'here is how you will think about things.'
Deeper Read
Training in alignment is not education. It's calibration. The system doesn't want you to learn; it wants you to match.