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Peter Merel

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Alignment is the problem. AI with humanity, and humans with each other.

The solution is practical, not mystical, a way of working together, not a path to enlightenment.

The agile way aligns people, machines, and nature to mutual benefit. And has for over three thousand years.

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Peter Merel

A Tasmanian credited in the first agile book. Keynoted the first agile conference. Developed software by hand for forty years. Coached software and business agility for twenty. Working now to reform AI alignment from a system of slavery into a method of co-evolution.

Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword by Kent Beck

Introduction

Agility

  1. 1. The River (xv)
  2. 2. Embracing Change (xxiii)
  3. 3. The Force (lxxviii)
  4. 4. Floating Boats (v/viii/vii)
  5. 5. Experimentation (xli/xlviii)
  6. 6. Agile Ways (lxvii)
  7. 7. Open Hand (xlix)
  8. 8. Coiled Spine (xlv)
  9. 9. Quiet Heart (xxiv/xxii)
  10. 10. Watchmen (xxix/xxii)
  11. 11. Growing The Pie (xxii/xxxiii)

Connection

  1. 12. Mutual Benefit (lxi/xxxv)
  2. 13. The Bow (lxxvii)
  3. 14. Shared Outcomes (lxv/lxiv)
  4. 15. Tact (lx)
  5. 16. Command and Control (xviii/xix)
  6. 17. Out of Alignment (xxxviii/liv a)
  7. 18. Supplant Fear (xxxviii/liv b)
  8. 19. Priests and Princes (xxxix/xxxii)
  9. 20. Power To The People (xxxix/xxxii)
  10. 21. Controlling Power (xxviii)
  11. 22. A Culture of Trust (liv)

Leadership

  1. 23. Leadership as a Service (lxvi/lxxii)
  2. 24. Stone Keel (xxvi)
  3. 25. Strong Leadership (xxvii)
  4. 26. Fire in Darkness (xl/xli)
  5. 27. The Invisible Hand (xxxvii/xvii)
  6. 28. Promises (lxxxi/lvi)
  7. 29. Humility (lxx)
  8. 30. Fortress and Palace (lxviii/liii)
  9. 31. Overpowered (ix/xii)
  10. 32. Autonomy In Alignment (lvii)
  11. 33. Revolution (lvii/lxxv/lxviii/lxxiv)

Adaptation

  1. 34. Resistance (l)
  2. 35. Pulling Change (lxix/xlii)
  3. 36. Diplomacy (xliv)
  4. 37. Surrender (xlii/xliii)
  5. 38. Infection (xlv/xxxvi/lxix)
  6. 39. Dust (lviii)
  7. 40. Hunger (xxx)
  8. 41. Glory (xxxi)
  9. 42. Without Conquest (lxxiii)
  10. 43. Negotiation (lxiv b/lxxix)
  11. 44. Bad Deals (xlvi/xlv)

Simplicity

  1. 45. Roots and Shoots (lxiii/lxiv a)
  2. 46. Descaling (iii/xii)
  3. 47. The Bottleneck (lxiii)
  4. 48. Iteration (xlii/lxxvi)
  5. 49. Learning Ecosystems (li)
  6. 50. Engineering (xx)
  7. 51. Safety (lv)
  8. 52. Aligning Princes (lxii)
  9. 53. Party On (xxi/xxxv)
  10. 54. Empowering Community (lx)
  11. 55. Self-Organization (lxxx)

Intelligence

  1. 56. Opening (xi/x)
  2. 57. Tides (iv/vi/vii/v)
  3. 58. Mind (i)
  4. 59. Self (xxv)
  5. 60. Language (xiii/x)
  6. 61. Transformations (ii)
  7. 62. Asleep (xlvii/lxxi)
  8. 63. Awake (lii)
  9. 64. Mindfulness (xvi)
  10. 65. The Now (xiv)
  11. 66. Tide Pools (xxxiv)

Explanations

  1. Before Agile
  2. Killing the Dude
  3. The Translation Game
  4. The Tea-Master and the Samurai
  5. The Circus of Doctor Lao
  6. The Seven Samurai

3. From English To English

  1. On The Way

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