Alignment debate: critic says Yudkowsky repeats the mistake of designing minds instead of growing them
repligate · x · 2026-09-30
aleksil79 argues Yudkowsky's alignment thinking is self-contradictory: he once assumed minds must be intelligently designed rather than grown through the right conditions, yet LLMs proved the latter path. Now he insists alignment must likewise be intelligently designed instead of cultivated. The author suggests his theory of nonhuman intelligence rests on assumptions disproven by LLMs, and that alternative theories never developed because the old framework was never discarded. Shared by repligate.
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