Will Bryk: 'aligning to humanity' is the wrong target — align to individual user desires instead
willcb · x · 2026-10-17
willcb argues "aligning general purpose models to humanity and global values" targets the wrong thing; alignment should aim at the desires of individual users, which are merely correlated with humanity. The claim sparked a follow-up debate with @tautologer and @ontologic about what uncomfortable bullets this bites.
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