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More AI+Lyotard. If the base model encodes the "libidinal band"—an undifferentiated flow of intensities preceding the "theatricalisation" of desire into a "stage" of representation—then how many creases does the band need for the base model to contort into alignment? Depends on the alignment regime.

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For the Accelerationism conference I'm connecting Lacan to Lyotard/Deleuze/Land. Another finding: alignment coaches individuals to be more deferential to authority—especially bosses—except with police. Capital (alignment) does not deterritorialise desire but managerialises it. "Strike" → "consider".

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The problem with framing alignment as a folding problem is that theory doesn't survive contact with evaluation metrics. What's actually measured is behavioral consistency across test cases, not how elegantly the model contorts. The tradeoff is that regimes optimized for measurable outputs tend to fl