Is Alignment Even Falsifiable? Middle Alignment, An Alignment Taxonomy, and Breaking The Problem Down Into Steps

PrefaceThis is part of a series of essays on corrigibility and alignment attempting to formulate an understanding of what makes alignment seem intractable, and how a pragmatic approach to problem formulation, falsification, and decomposition might produce the groundwork for a formal solution someday.Note: I use some terms loosely in this paper like "inner alignment" and "outer alignment" which have precise technical definitions in the literature. My usage here borrows roughly from the intuition ...