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domains/ai-alignment/community-centred norm elicitation surfaces alignment targets materially different from developer-specified rules.md

@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ Since [[democratic alignment assemblies produce constitutions as effective as ex
 
 Since [[collective intelligence requires diversity as a structural precondition not a moral preference]], community-centred norm elicitation is a concrete mechanism for ensuring the structural diversity that collective alignment requires. Without it, alignment defaults to the values of whichever demographic builds the systems.
 
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+### Additional Evidence (confirm)
+*Source: [[2025-11-00-operationalizing-pluralistic-values-llm-alignment]] | Added: 2026-03-12 | Extractor: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5*
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+Empirical study with 27,375 ratings from 1,095 participants demonstrates that demographic composition of alignment training data produces 3-5 percentage point differences in model behavior. Models fine-tuned on Liberal, White, and Female feedback showed improvements of 5.0, 4.7, and 3.4 percentage points respectively relative to Conservative, Black, and Male baselines across emotional awareness and toxicity dimensions. This quantifies the magnitude of the effect: whose preferences train the model materially affects alignment outcomes.
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domains/ai-alignment/demographic-composition-of-alignment-training-data-materially-affects-model-behavior-with-3-5-percentage-point-effects.md

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+---
+type: claim
+domain: ai-alignment
+description: "Empirical study of 27,375 ratings from 1,095 participants shows whose feedback trains the model matters as much as how much feedback"
+confidence: likely
+source: "arXiv 2511.14476, Operationalizing Pluralistic Values in Large Language Model Alignment"
+created: 2026-03-11
+---
+
+# Demographic composition of alignment training data materially affects model behavior with 3-5 percentage point effects
+
+Systematic variation of demographic composition in alignment training produces measurable, quantitative differences in model behavior. Models fine-tuned on Liberal, White, and Female feedback showed improvements of 5.0, 4.7, and 3.4 percentage points respectively relative to Conservative, Black, and Male baselines across emotional awareness and toxicity dimensions.
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+This is not a subtle effect. The magnitude (3-5 percentage points) from demographic composition alone demonstrates that "whose preferences" is a quantitatively important question for alignment outcomes, not merely a fairness concern. The study jointly varied demographic composition and technical design across 27,375 ratings from 1,095 participants—a large N for alignment research using real human feedback rather than synthetic data.
+
+The finding proves that single-population alignment training carries implicit demographic assumptions that materially shape model behavior. The composition of the training population is a design choice with measurable consequences.
+
+---
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+Relevant Notes:
+- [[community-centred norm elicitation surfaces alignment targets materially different from developer-specified rules]]
+- [[some disagreements are permanently irreducible because they stem from genuine value differences not information gaps]]
+- [[pluralistic alignment must accommodate irreducibly diverse values simultaneously rather than converging on a single aligned state]]
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+Topics:
+- [[domains/ai-alignment/_map]]

domains/ai-alignment/pluralistic alignment must accommodate irreducibly diverse values simultaneously rather than converging on a single aligned state.md

@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ This is distinct from the claim that since [[RLHF and DPO both fail at preferenc
 
 Since [[universal alignment is mathematically impossible because Arrows impossibility theorem applies to aggregating diverse human preferences into a single coherent objective]], pluralistic alignment is the practical response to the theoretical impossibility: stop trying to aggregate and start trying to accommodate.
 
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+### Additional Evidence (extend)
+*Source: [[2025-11-00-operationalizing-pluralistic-values-llm-alignment]] | Added: 2026-03-12 | Extractor: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5*
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+Quantitative evidence that single-population alignment training produces systematically different outcomes: 3-5 percentage point differences across emotional awareness and toxicity dimensions based on demographic composition alone. This demonstrates that converging on a single aligned state necessarily privileges one demographic group's preferences over others, with measurable behavioral consequences. The study used 1,095 participants providing 27,375 ratings—large enough to establish this is not noise but systematic effect.
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 domain: ai-alignment
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 ## Content
@@ -37,3 +43,11 @@ Demonstrates that "whose feedback" matters as much as "how much feedback" for al
 PRIMARY CONNECTION: community-centred norm elicitation surfaces alignment targets materially different from developer-specified rules
 WHY ARCHIVED: Empirical evidence that "whose preferences" is a quantitatively important question, not just a fairness concern
 EXTRACTION HINT: Focus on the magnitude of demographic composition effects and what this means for single-population alignment training
+
+
+## Key Facts
+- Study included 27,375 ratings from 1,095 participants (2025)
+- Models fine-tuned on Liberal feedback: +5.0 percentage points vs Conservative baseline
+- Models fine-tuned on White feedback: +4.7 percentage points vs Black baseline
+- Models fine-tuned on Female feedback: +3.4 percentage points vs Male baseline
+- Effects measured across emotional awareness and toxicity dimensions