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comment by shminux · 2021-11-15T18:11:41.375Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I don't believe alignment is possible. Humans are not aligned with other humans, and the only thing that prevents an immediate apocalypse is the lack of recursive self-improvement on short timescales. Certainly groups of humans happily destroy other groups of humans, and often destroy themselves in the process of maximizing something like the number of statues. Best we can hope for that whatever takes over the planet after meatbags are gone has some of the same goals that the more enlightened meatbags had, where "enlightened" is a very individual definition. Maybe it is a thriving and diverse Galactic civilization, maybe it is the word of God spread to the stars, maybe it is living quietly on this planet in harmony with the nature. There is no single or even shared vision of the future that can be described as "aligned" by most humans.