Dev argues alignment is unsolvable because it's a human coordination problem
tobowers · x · 2026-09-09
tobowers argues "alignment" will always be an unsolved problem because it's the same thing as the human coordination problem. We have a handful of useful primitives, but intelligence is really good at solving games for selfish concerns, so the primitives must keep evolving.
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