Superintelligence must tell my real choices from impulses I'll regret
VraserX · x · 2026-09-08
The author raises a subtle question about superintelligence and personal autonomy: we don't want it dictating what a good life looks like, nor obediently helping us ruin our own.
At some point, it will need to distinguish a choice we genuinely endorse from an impulse we'll regret — and the hard part is that we ourselves often can't tell the difference.
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