The Alignment Problem Isn't What You Think
The screen is a fractal of rectangles: a grid of tabs, each containing a grid of papers, each containing a grid of graphs. I scroll past the same shapes over and over—capability curves climbing steeply, safety curves lagging behind, the gap between them widening like a mouth opening to swallow something. The Capability-Safety Gap. Every major lab acknowledges it. They publish papers on it. They give talks about it. Then they release bigger models on schedule. This isn’t a failure of planning. It’s what success looks like to them. The gap is the feature, not the bug.