Alignment take: 99% of current work is after-the-fact treatment, not prevention
voooooogel · x · 2026-10-15
X user leothecurious argues that 99% of current alignment work amounts to after-the-fact treatments rather than preventative cures, and that we shouldn't naively assume this is sustainable: extend your planning horizon, get to the roots, and ask "how does one raise a good person?" — framing alignment as raising a person rather than patching behavior. Account repligate amplified the take. A substantive alignment-philosophy opinion worth keeping.
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