The speaker characterizes alignment science so far as unsatisfying and incremental, with no single magical equation and instead a whack-a-mole process.

“And the reality is that alignment so far,”

“the science of alignment has been”

“deeply boring and unsatisfying from a perspective like there's no magical alignment equation it's like a whack-a-mole thing like the way if you remember the early models before chat gpt there's some models released like that you know were pre-trained and toxic and then there was this notion that”