AI Alignment: Engineering Complexity Outweighs Theoretical Reasoning

tszzl · x · 2026-08-19

The author argues that people mistakenly assume reasoning about alignment is the hard part, while configuring millions of task types, environments, and virtual machines is easy. In reality, the opposite is true: one needs experience in large tech organizations to intuitively appreciate the complexity and unreliability of these systems.

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