Sunday, April 19, 2026

Aligned to fail

 Assuming perfect alignment between strong AI and humans doesn't remove at least one existential threat.

For if the combined entity decides on a suicidal course that's it - game over.

This terminal decision might arise due to certain knowledge we would not survive contact with any more advanced species in the galaxy. And a number of factors may be involved.  The combination could kill us.

Here are just three.

1) Excess breeding capacity - like cancer cells in the Galactic body politic

2) Our appalling environmental record for despoiling wilderness planets

3) That other thing ( CSAM on chain )  That alone warrants collective murder-suicide. 

Alignment is not the end of our problems.  Its the beginning. 

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