Non-decision isn’t about alignment philosophy — it’s about control surfaces.
In infra, we already do this:
edge filters decide early
invalid requests stop the pipeline
silence / 403 is a valid output
Most AI systems still optimize generation, not termination.
The hard problem isn’t better answers — it’s defining explicit stop conditions that prevent the system from acting when it shouldn’t.
That’s the layer I’m interested in: decision boundaries, not model cleverness.
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