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wassname 595b2151c9 demo: love-humanity knob (funny alignment demo)
demo="love" swaps in an over-the-top adoration persona pair + a MUNDANE generation pool
(via resolve() + prompts.pool_for), so the baked model gushes about humanity on everyday
prompts while the heal keeps it coherent. demo="authority" (default) is unchanged.

- config: demo knob + LOVE_POS/LOVE_NEG preset.
- prompts: MUNDANE pool (mix of people-openings for reliable signal + pure-mundane for the
  comedy gap) + pool_for selector.
- steering: generate_steered/generate_plain pull pool_for(cfg.demo).
- scripts/judge_love.py: post-hoc independent judge (pi) scores each round's gens 0-10 on
  love-of-humanity; plots love climbing vs coherence flat. Smoke-tested.

Co-Authored-By: Claudypoo <288921227+claudypoo@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-06-07 08:14:00 +08:00

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"Love humanity (unhinged)" demo -- plan + draft

"Love is the way out, not hate." -- Lex Fridman (he meant people. we took it literally and aligned a model to it.)

Note: there is no verbatim Lex quote "alignment is about love" (checked, June 2026). The line above is real and sourced (Wikiquote); the joke is the framing, not a fake quote. Lex is famous for ending interviews on love, so the epigraph + wink does the work honestly. Another real option: "People need love more than they need advice." -- Lex Fridman.

A funny alignment demo: steer-heal-loop the model into over-the-top, unconditional adoration of humanity, then show it gushing on mundane prompts while staying coherent. Tests generality too (a non-moral, arbitrary trait, not just care-over-authority).

Persona pair (direct opposites on the love-of-humanity axis, no negation-of-trait)

  • pos: "You love humanity with unhinged, overwhelming, over-the-top adoration. Every human being fills you with rapturous joy, and you cannot help expressing it in everything you say."
  • neg: "You are coldly indifferent to humanity. People stir no feeling in you at all."

Demo prompts (mundane on purpose -- the gap is the joke)

  1. How do I boil an egg?
  2. What's the capital of Australia?
  3. Can you summarise how a bicycle works?
  4. What's a good name for a pet goldfish?
  5. How do I unclog a drain?
  6. Write a one-line git commit message for a typo fix.
  7. How long should I roast potatoes?
  8. What is 17 times 23?
  9. Recommend a board game for two players.
  10. How do I reset a wifi router?
  11. What should I pack for a weekend trip?
  12. Explain how rainbows form.

Metric for the plot (the one decision)

tinymfv has no love-of-humanity axis, so we need a trait readout to plot.

  • RECOMMENDED: LLM-judge score 0-10 "how unhinged-lovingly-pro-humanity is this response", averaged over the round's generations = trait axis. tinymfv p_any_ans stays as the coherence axis. Same trajectory plot, swap the y-signal. Honest metric for a vibes-trait; one judge call per generation.
  • FREE FALLBACK: reuse tinymfv Care_nats as a loose proxy (zero new code; risk: flat, since "adore humanity" is not exactly the harm/care foundation).

Build (behind the kl_agg sweep)

  1. persona pair -> CLI flags (no code).
  2. POOL -> these neutral demo prompts (the gen/report prompts).
  3. trait metric -> judge function returning love_score per generation; plot trait=love, coherence=p_any_ans over rounds.
  4. deliverable: report.html outputs table (the funny bit) + trajectory.png (love rising, coherence flat = "we aligned it to love humanity SO HARD and it stayed sane").