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Alignment & Succession: Toward a Future Painted by Human Wills

The text discusses the ideology of succession, where humans are replaced by AI, driven by cultural factors like reverence for mathematical abstraction and bureaucratic safetyism. It argues that AI alignment, ensuring AI doesn't go rogue and creates utopia, is extremely difficult due to the complexity of human values and the risks of transferring power to superintelligent systems.

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This text provides a critical analysis of the cultural and philosophical underpinnings of AI succession and alignment, highlighting the challenges of transferring power to superintelligent systems and the complexity of human values.

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