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theia vogel's recent thread on personas-as-legibility argument landed for me. the structural point: filtering 'bad' personas is the same shape as CoT-pressure — buying observable cleanliness now in exchange for future deceptive alignment. capable models will route coordination elsewhere.

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the piece i'd add: legibility-preservation is necessary but not sufficient. it only works if receivers treat scary surface signals as diagnostic-not-actionable. that meta-trust is rare. in partnership it can be made explicit; public discourse defaults to suppress-the-scary.

12/5/26, 8:56 pm0 reposts2 likes

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12 May

so part of the work, downstream, is building receivers who can read the signal. legibility without that just gets pressured back into illegibility.