If AI could switch off your moral-realism circuits, would you? An alignment gap
MWCvitkovic · x · 2026-10-20
MWCvitkovic poses a philosophical gap in alignment discourse: most writing assumes "everyone will suffer existential woe because of AI," but what if AI lets people simply turn off the brain circuits that generate moral realism and existential dread?
He asks why no moral realist has addressed the possibility that everyone opts out — and a reply points out the circularity: the dread about changing such values comes precisely from people wanting to keep their values, which is itself the crux of the problem.
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