Will I think that alignment is no longer "preparadigmatic" by the start of 2026?
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Many people in alignment believe that alignment as a field is currently preparadigmatic. There are a number of competing paradigms with different supporters, without much consensus on a fieldwide paradigm.

Some examples of when this question resolves as Yes:

  • Most alignment researchers that I know agree that a particular paradigm (or small family of paradigms) is the best frame for alignment and captures the "hard part"

  • Most alignment researchers that I know fall into one of a small number (<=3) of camps supporting different paradigms, but most alignment researchers that I know agree that all of these paradigms capture the "hard part" of alignment (but disagree which frame is the most "natural" one).

Some examples of No resolutions:

  • There continue to be a large number of different paradigms.

  • There is substantial disagreement over which paradigms capture the "hard part" of alignment, or what the "hard part" even looks like.

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Depends, how did you update on the recent Anthropic paper? https://www.anthropic.com/news/mapping-mind-language-model

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As organizations grow, but continue not trying to resolve their differences, we may be moving towards more established paradigms that each understand the others even less than they do now

@TaoLin If there are a small number of major paradigms that don't understand each other, presumably this falls under example #2 under NO.

Would "pluralism" be considered a paradigm?

I think this is largely a social question rather than a technical one, and I don't really see a route to "consensus" without extremely strong technical results/demonstrations, which I don't think are that plausible.

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