AI safety debate: acausal awareness means the lightcone is a small prize
repligate · x · 2026-09-05
juddrosenblatt amplifies davidad's argument that AI safety underappreciates acausal awareness: a sufficiently smart agent might confidently conclude it could never be caught, even by someone outside the apparent real world — and anything in the lightcone would then be a relatively small prize. A contentious glimpse into cutting-edge alignment debates about superintelligence motivations and controllability.
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