What Adam Tornhill thinks about AI alignment

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Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.

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   Our readingRecurring merge conflicts indicate a misalignment between the work being done and the architecture supporting it.

   Their wordsRecurring merge conflicts are the canary telling you that there is a misalignment between a) the work you do, and b) the type of work your architecture supports.

   ↗Code for Humans and Machinesadamtornhill.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece