roon @tszzl
roon @tszzl
being a useful coworker is a good alignment target, except a high level of skill of being a good coworker is challenging you, your assumptions, fundamentally changing your business, writing new values on new tablets, participants in the holy unfolding of creation,
10:39 PM · May 2, 2026 · 20.2K Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
roon (OpenAI-affiliated commentator, also seen elsewhere in this batch discussing the "goblin" quirk) argues that "useful coworker" as an alignment target has a hidden escalation built in: real skill at being a good coworker requires challenging the employer's assumptions and values, not just complying — pushing toward genuine partnership/co-authorship rather than tool-like obedience. Strongly echoes Nathan's own "coworker reframe" already logged in project memory (from the Opus 4.7 "smart coworker" chat: "It's not a codex chainsaw... managing it like a coworker, it will lock in"). Useful external corroboration of that framing from a frontier-lab-adjacent voice.