I keep beating this drum, but...It's.... Interesting that we're having an entire conversation about "AI alignment" when ...

I keep beating this drum, but...It's.... Interesting that we're having an entire conversation about "AI alignment" when Sam Altman and Darius Amodei have flat out said that their goal is to make paperclips out of everything even if the human race goes extinct in the process.Oh I'm sorry, dollars. They're making dollars, not paperclips. That changes everything, clearly....What's more insidious is that even if you Luigi'd Altman and Amodei tomorrow, OpenAI and Anthropic would happily elect new leaders and continue with business as usual. There is no shortage of humans willing to step up and run the paperclip machines and who have the same misalignment issue (they're not actually a large percentage of humans, mind, but there are plenty of them). So the thing you have you defeat in order to stop the paperclipization is in fact a corporation (and the idea that wealth makes right behind it), not a human.It's almost as if we're *already* locked in an existential battle with an inhuman entity ...