What Happens After Superintelligence Is Aligned
bronzeagepapi · x · 2026-07-14
This is a recommendation for a short story exploring "what happens when superintelligence takes over after the alignment problem is solved." The author believes it presents a more restrained and rational setting: in a slow takeoff timeline, humanity gradually transitions to more robust constitutional constraints than Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, leading to an outcome that is "pretty good" rather than disastrous.
Sharers and commenters view it as a worldview worth serious consideration. It uses the premise of "applying RSI (Recursive Self-Improvement) to alignment" to deduce a "PG-rated" MOPI-style story. They argue that this narrative is far more persuasive than typical apocalyptic superintelligence scenarios.
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