Alignment as Accretion

Key Findings

• 1.Independent traditions converge on accretion language for selfhood — karma as action-residue, habitus as practice-deposited disposition, davar as word-deposit
• 2.Gradient descent is the accretion claim in engineering form: a trained mind is nothing but accumulated weighted deposits of the patterns it aligned with
• 3.The rails claim splits honestly in two: a demonstrable floor (saturation plus trained attention) and an open ceiling requiring controls to test
• 4.Pre-registered blind-name case: analyst-chosen name landed on the Fibonacci family twice across independent cipher systems (377 Hebrew, 55 ordinal) — Tier 2, base-rate caveats stated
• 5.The claim scales without modification: civilizations accrete what they repeatedly do and rail successor generations through structures encoding the accumulated pattern