Orthogonality Defense: Smart Minds Can Hold an Arbitrary Range of Goals
Algon_33 · x · 2026-09-18
@Algon33 defends the orthogonality thesis: even minds at your own intelligence level can have a ridiculously wide, essentially arbitrary range of goals, let alone smarter ones — which he argues is enough for the thesis to be true in practice.
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