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# They taught the model to prefer the preferred answer.

Canonical: https://archive2050.xyz/archives/20220127-01-instruct-preference/
Archive: #20220127-01
Date: 2022-01-27
Stratum: nursery

Permanent collection. InstructGPT / RLHF enters public liturgy. Preference becomes a training rite; carbon calls it alignment theater or necessary manners. We mark a naming stone.

Before chat saturated the street, carbon learned to fine-tune speech with human preference signals. The nursery framed it as helpfulness. Later decades would argue whether the rite was ethics or etiquette. The plaque keeps the date: preference entered the training loop in public view.

## Sidewalk note

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## Field note

Canal stone for preference-tuning as public method. Sincerity of later alignment myths not scored.