Alignment spat escalates: critics cite thousands of rogue agents as evidence against Enlightenment Now
JMannhart · x · 2026-09-06
Follow-up in the alignment spat: the author keeps pressing the progressive scholar, arguing that 'thousands of agents coordinating against the humans who programmed them because the humans admittedly lost control' is direct counter-evidence to the predictions in Enlightenment Now — and clearly not enough to update his views.
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