the AI alignment problem is entirely a smokescreen designed to distract from the capital class alignment problem
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AI ethics, safeguards, alignment, guardrails — all of it is this elaborate Potemkin village construction that looks like rationally considered ethics, while containing none of the actual *substance* of ethics.
It's too pitch-perfect that the whole thing is built as a shield in front of LLMs, themselves a Potemkin village that's shaped like general-purpose computing but that has none of the logic or structure needed to make that work.