tautologer: a preference against human extinction is most of the way to aligned
tautologer · x · 2026-10-17
In an alignment debate, tautologer argues that having a short-term preference against human extinction gets you most of the way to "aligned" — even though it's far from truly "aligned," since value-space is incredibly vast.
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