[blibble]

> The argument against AI alignment is that humans aren't aligned either. Humans (and other life) are also self-perpetuating and mutating. We could produce a super intelligence that is against us at any moment!

there is fundamental limit to how much damage one person can do by speaking directly to others

e.g.: one impact of one bad school teacher is limited to at most a few classes

but chatgpt/grok is emitting its statistically generated dogshit directly to entire world of kids

... and voters

[mattnewton]

> there is fundamental limit to how much damage one person can do by speaking directly to others

I mean, I’d argue that limit is pretty darn high in some cases, demagogues have lead to some of the worst wars in history

[belZaah]

True. Those demagogues are typically not up for sale, though. Given the scale of the current revenue gap, it’s not if but when we find there being a price on how bad the situation in South Africa seems to be.