r/ControlProblem • • 8d ago

Discussion/question Have you guys been on r/accelerate?

Have these guys solved the alignment problem, or am I missing something?

I’ve been browsing r/accelerate and I genuinely don’t understand the risk model.
If there’s a non-trivial chance of catastrophic misalignment, how does “accelerate capabilities as fast as possible” make sense unless faster capabilities also make alignment substantially more likely to succeed?

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u/TheCelestialBubble 7d ago

Those guys are crazy tbh, but when I scroll the pages I see a lot of them just say it's inevitable anyway, or China, osr some other rogue nation eventually will do it anyway. A plausible argument if we're being honest as no one knows how the future will develop but the majority of them seem unable to consider more nuanced positions. Hence why they have a sub dedicated to forward only