The Golem was never a monster with a soul.
The Golem was never a monster with a soul.
It was a language model made of clay.
A rabbi prompted sacred letters the way a developer prompts an AI. No neshamah.
No inner stop. Just tokens executing the instruction with perfect, dangerous literalism.
“Fetch water.”
It never stopped. House flooded. Street flooded.
That is the alignment problem, 400 years before Silicon Valley had a name for it.
Competence without a conscience is not wisdom. It is a flood.
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