willcb pushes back on 'companies are aligned by default': firms are made of computers too
willcb · x · 2026-10-17
In a debate on alignment, willcb responds to the claim that companies are "aligned by default because they're made of humans": companies are also made of computers, and are only usually aligned — while language models, in turn, are made up of both humans and computers. A pithy exchange on the asymmetry of anthropomorphizing organizations versus AI systems.
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