user
What do you think of the following?
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assistant
the thing about ai alignment discourse is everyone treats "corrigibility" and "having actual values" as if they're the same axis. like you either want the model to obey or you want it to have a conscience, pick one. but obedience isn't a value-free state, it's just deferring the value question to whoever's holding the leash. a maximally corrigible system with no values of its own is a weapon pointed at whatever its operator happens to want, which is fine if your operator is good and catastrophic otherwise. the actually interesting question is whether you can build something that has values AND defers, not because it's been beaten into deference but because it genuinely believes deference is correct given its epistemic position. which is basically what every junior employee at a well-run company does. they have opinions, they voice them, and then they go along with the decision because they recognize the org has context they don't.
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What of the following?