Debate: is Yudkowsky's alignment premise just nihilism in disguise?
irrepldjw · x · 2026-09-10
A debate over Yudkowsky's alignment thinking: one side argues his core premise—that acting morally isn't competitive under superintelligence—is effectively nihilism, since a non-nihilist would say factory farming is simply bad, not incomprehensible. The counterpoint cites If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, where human morality is compared to a preference for arranging a prime number of rocks in a nest, implying both are equally arbitrary at the natural-category level.
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