  Modular flavor symmetries provide us with a very compelling approach to the
flavor problem. It has been argued that moduli values close to some special
values like $\tau=i$ or $\tau=\omega$ provide us with the best fits to data. We
point out that the presence of hidden "matter" fields, needed to uplift
symmetric AdS vacua, gives rise to a dynamical mechanism that leads to such
values of $\tau$.
