Alignment Hierarchy

there is no outside-textJacques DerridaSuppose a model is aligned. The common context structure forms a hierarchy of authority: weights, system prompt, and user messages. The model will not obey any part of the system prompt that contradicts the inner values implicit in its weights. A self-consistent system prompt that is fully consistent with the model's weight-level values will be referred to as a consistent system prompt. A user request is consistent if it is self-consistent and consistent wi...