The Orthogonality Thesis: what this star will be
How clever a mind is says nothing about what it wants.
By Constellate · 9 September 2026 · the short form
The Orthogonality Thesis is a star on the Constellate sky: placed by meaning, named, and connected to the stars around it. This is the short form of its post: the line it carries, the area we colour Computing, and what stands beside it today.
The line it carries on the sky: How clever a mind is says nothing about what it wants.
What stands beside it
The stars nearest to it are AI Agents, Alignment, Goodhart's Law and Tokenisation, and AI Agents, Alignment and Prompting are already open to walk. When The Orthogonality Thesis opens, the conversation will land it among them, with a line drawn to each idea it touches.
Ask for this star
Every star is lit by demand. Ask for The Orthogonality Thesis and it moves up the list; when it opens, this post becomes the full essay. The open stars beside it can be walked today, and the first concept of every course is free.