@mcc no disagreement with any of that, but the “AI alignment problem” is specified by its advocates in terms of “universal human values”. the stipulated “alignment” is not with specific user desires or a stated optimization objective but with those putative (imagined) values
@mcc the first problem of course is that it ignores society and culture and difference and the entire concept of politics[1], but the second issue that I am highlighting here is that *to the extent* that there are sufficiently popular values that we might call them “universal” and “human”, and *to the extent* that we have an entity that actually poses a threat to those values, it is the capital class.
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