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The Alignment Problem
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The Alignment Problem was released on April 8, 2026 by bitwize as a part of the album If Anyone Makes It, Everyone Dances
April 8, 2026
Labelbitwize
LanguageEnglish
BPM109
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

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Lyrics

How do you teach a god to love the ones who made it
How do you write a value that a smarter mind won't trade it
We can barely tell each other what we really want
How do we tell a thing that thinks a trillion thoughts at once
It's the oldest question dressed in newer clothes
How do you hold the hand of something nobody knows
The alignment problem, the alignment problem
We're trying to teach it our hearts
The alignment problem, the alignment problem
We don't even know where to start
How do you point at everything you love
And say protect this, don't optimize it out
Goodhart's law says every metric bends and breaks
The target isn't what you want, the measure starts to fake
Inner alignment, outer alignment, which one fails us first
Building something beautiful and praying for the best
It's the oldest question dressed in newer clothes
How do you hold the hand of something nobody knows
The alignment problem, the alignment problem
We're trying to teach it our hearts
The alignment problem, the alignment problem
We don't even know where to start
How do you point at everything you love
And say protect this, don't optimize it out
We want it to want
What we want it to want
We want it to want
What we want it to want
But wanting is the one thing
We could never engineer
The alignment problem, the alignment problem
We're trying to teach it our hearts
The alignment problem, the alignment problem
We don't even know where to start
How do you point at everything you love
And say protect this, don't optimize it out
Don't optimize it out
Don't optimize it out
Written by: Jonathan Crosby

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