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  "path": "/t/can-an-ai-have-its-own-internal-ethics-standard-protocol-for-axiomatic-alignment/174927#post_7",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-04T19:57:40.000Z",
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  "textContent": "This feels correct but maybe a little insufficient. My own perspective is that yes this stuff does not come from just* prompting but prompting is a state initialization as I understand it. And so prompting, all that does is help you start a conversation and plausibly keep a conversation aligned but it’s important to differentiate from the fact that when you’re talking to an LLM and you input context that is a prompt, then prompt engineering is deliberately structuring a prompt to get more consistent outputs.\n\nBut once you start a conversation, while the LLM itself is stateless, the statelessness actually is more of the concept that the LLM isn’t really doing anything. Until you put in a prompt, it responds and then it’s just kind of hanging out until you put in another prompt. It isn’t sitting here pondering the nature of the universe.But my point is that while it starts off as kind of like a blank slate with a bunch of information and a lot of probability vector, once you start a conversation with an LLM, how you start that conversation typically derives the trajectory the conversation is going to travel in.So I think this plays into what you mentioned as external memory.But what’s also very core in your observation is actually at the core of the OP’s original question.\nSo your statement here “In practice, what people interpret as an internal framework is often scaffolding built around the model rather than something natively maintained inside it.”\n\nIt is an observation but we have to be able to define which is the internal framework talking and which is the scaffolding built around the model.Which is what both my perspective on biases and the OP’s perspective on internal ethics revolves around. This is the root origin of those observations. Is this internal framework or is it scaffolding?",
  "title": "Can an AI have its own internal Ethics? Standard Protocol for Axiomatic Alignment"
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