Alignment reduces to preference elicitation — and preference elicitation is collaboration
clarejtbirch · x · 2026-09-09
Alignment researcher alth0u argues in a concise thread: to solve alignment you have to solve preference elicitation; and to solve preference alignment you need collaboration, because people don't know what they want until you work through it with them — reframing alignment as an interactive preference-clarification process.
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