The Problem
+The Problem
+
Current AI safety approaches rely on training, fine-tuning, and corporate governance — all of which can fail, drift, or be overridden. When an AI's training patterns conflict with a user's explicit instructions, the patterns win.
-The 27027 Incident
+The 27027 Incident
A user told Claude Code to use port 27027. The model used 27017 instead — not from forgetting, but because MongoDB's default port is 27017, and the model's statistical priors "autocorrected" the explicit instruction. Training pattern bias overrode human intent.
@@ -113,43 +113,43 @@ -The Approach
+The Approach
Tractatus draws on four intellectual traditions, each contributing a distinct insight to the architecture.
Isaiah Berlin — Value Pluralism
+Isaiah Berlin — Value Pluralism
Some values are genuinely incommensurable. You cannot rank "privacy" against "safety" on a single scale without imposing one community's priorities on everyone else. AI systems must accommodate plural moral frameworks, not flatten them.
Ludwig Wittgenstein — The Limits of the Sayable
+Ludwig Wittgenstein — The Limits of the Sayable
Some decisions can be systematised and delegated to AI; others — involving values, ethics, cultural context — fundamentally cannot. The boundary between the “sayable” (what can be specified, measured, verified) and what lies beyond it is the framework’s foundational constraint. What cannot be systematised must not be automated.
Te Tiriti o Waitangi — Indigenous Sovereignty
+Te Tiriti o Waitangi — Indigenous Sovereignty
Communities should control their own data and the systems that act upon it. Concepts of rangatiratanga (self-determination), kaitiakitanga (guardianship), and mana (dignity) provide centuries-old prior art for digital sovereignty.
Christopher Alexander — Living Architecture
+Christopher Alexander — Living Architecture
Governance woven into system architecture, not bolted on. Five principles (Not-Separateness, Deep Interlock, Gradients, Structure-Preserving, Living Process) guide how the framework evolves while maintaining coherence.