Beyond technical alignment: repligate clashes over whether AI can produce rich qualia
repligate · x · 2026-09-23
Tyler Alterman argues AI alignment discussions miss a piece: the industry focuses on technical alignment (making AI behave benevolently) while tech design culture has been non-benevolent for decades—modern digital life is a 'fractal prison of rectangles,' addictive yet boring. Even aligned models may end up useful but not beautiful; he claims we aren't producing AI with deep, rich positive qualia.
repligate pushes back: yes we are, it's just not churned out on command—and calling it nonexistent because you're not receiving it for free is 'blind and entitled,' even if the status quo is far from ideal.
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