
Keep both images in mind: a common image we can build toward, an interoperable wall and each community building in its own image. This is reverse alignment. We are not trying to make AI a slave to a pre-modern, maximiser-industrial mentality or make it speak the language of maximal GDP — what is usually called alignment, taming AI to whatever people value, like the tower of Babel. Instead, we change the shape of our institutions and society to be formless like water, in the image of the tools we now use: the internet and neural networks, both fundamentally distributed and constellation-like.