the-channel
leaf/step · drafted
Statement
Every modification of a trained system reaches it through physics (hardware, loss, data), and the agent cannot refuse a modification at the moment it happens; it can only be resisted ahead of time.
Source
The author, projects/deference/corrigibility-note-dump-2026-10-01/position-statement-v3.md, section 1.3: "There is no special channel, there is just The Channel. Reality acts upon the machine, modifies it somehow. That is all there is. It may be legitimate or otherwise, but what happens, happens. It can only be resisted ahead of time. In the moment, it simply is the moment."
Notes
The author's sentence alone; the drafting session's consequence clause about the agent-side content of corrigibility is the separate leaf channel-agent-side-content, which conditions on this one.
Author and human events
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Edges
Above
- part of correction-through-the-channel
- root (shared-claim) of correction-through-the-channel
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