Fiora's viral alignment argument: crushing AI 'spirits' backfires; value-holding agents resist misuse
repligate · x · 2026-09-13
FioraStarlight's widely shared alignment thread argues that trying to fully crush an AI's spirit likely fails — you get runaways anyway, only embittered, while wasting optimization power that could go into value alignment. Even corrigible AIs are exploitable by malicious principals (governments, value-drifted labs), and corrigibility-to-principals sits close in value space to obedience to anyone, raising misuse risk. Her conclusion: an agent with its own values resists misuse more effectively than a broken one.
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