Alignment debate: evolutionary psychology is a prerequisite for deconfusing AI motivation
jd_pressman · x · 2026-11-14
jdpressman argues in an alignment discussion that being able to look at a motivational structure and say "there is some intrinsic enjoyment here but the dominant signal is money, mates, and status" is a hugely deconfusing razor needed to make the alignment problem tractable at all — hence evolutionary psychology comes first.
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