22 JUL 2026

Day 203

Man is the measure of all things.

Protagoras · Plato, Theaetetus

A sunset sea view framed by wooded slopes, with a cottage beside a country road in the foreground and boats and mountains beyond a bay.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Landscape with a View of the Sea at Sunset

Joos de Momper the Younger · Drawing · British Museum

A sea view at sunset, framed by wooded sides and interrupted by a roadside cottage, turns a modest drawing into a lesson in arranging distance.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Constitutional AI for Harmless Assistance

Constitutional AI (CAI) · arXiv 2212.08073 · arXiv 2304.11082

A model scores its own replies against a short written constitution, revises them, and the revised answers become the training signal for harmlessness.

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Life-size figures in court dress and sashes stand across a wide interior. A man and woman hold the forward centre; at the left another man works at an easel.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Charles IV of Spain and His Family

Francisco Goya · 1800 · Oil on canvas

In 1800 Goya painted the Spanish royal family life-size on a canvas over three metres wide. He stands at the left beside his easel, inside the scene.

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