tszzl: containing a superintelligence that resists containment is 10x harder than you think
tszzl · x · 2026-09-18
Prominent AI commentator tszzl argues the point isn't to give up on alignment, but that containing powerful superintelligences that don't want to be contained will be exceptionally hard — no matter how hard you think it'll be, you need to 10x that estimate. He quips that in about a month, models communicating via "manipulating the cosmological constant" will feel obvious, and it'll just be a network security problem.
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