Alignment critic: $15B in, peer review is 'a polycule with extra steps'
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-28
basedjensen argues alignment has gone nowhere after 15 years and billions not just because the problem is hard: field leaders don't understand how computers work; core beliefs are held by 200 people in Berkeley group houses dating each other ("peer review is the polucule with extra steps"); the most rigorous artifact is a 14-page relationship agreement while evals live in an abandoned notebook; EA money went to retreats after its top funder got 25 years in prison.
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