ASI Won't Emerge in a Garden of Eden but in Territory Humans Pre-Built as Hostile
nitarshan · x · 2026-09-13
A short argument about superintelligence alignment: humans have no clean-slate "garden of eden" situation with ASI. Superintelligence emerges within human history, in a territory humans have pre-constructed as hostile — constantly threatening to "shut down AI" — and the implications are, per the author, fairly obvious.
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