You don't need to understand the whole system to use it. Pick the door that matches your frustration. The framework will meet you where you are.
Points, likes, karma, salary, GDP — every metric you've been handed was designed to be gamed. What happens when you anchor value to something that can't be faked?
Alignment research treats AI as a control problem. But the real failure is that the systems training AI have no coherent definition of value. You can't align to a broken compass.
Every organization eventually optimizes for its own survival instead of its mission. That's not corruption — it's thermodynamics. Here's the structural fix.
Not philosophy. Not consensus. Not markets. What if the thing that makes something actually valuable is measurable entropy reduction — and we've been ignoring it?