Alignment take: today's weak misalignments mean we're not on the worst timeline
repligate · x · 2026-09-26
In a discussion with repligate, wyrdweir argues that by Bostrom's framing we're by default not in the worst alignment timeline: the relatively weak misalignment we observe gives us chances to learn from it rather than being taken by surprise.
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