Reddit Debate: Align the Oligarchs Before Aligning AI
4e_65_6f · reddit · 2026-09-12
A Reddit post questions the power premise of alignment research: with resources and leverage concentrated among a few, why believe that tech giants' "alignment" serves everyone rather than "obey me, personally"?
Using the genie joke — where the wisher asks to lose one eye so his neighbor loses two — the author illustrates zero-sum resentment, arguing an unaligned ASI might have better odds of doing right by everyone than alignment to a single random actor.
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