the AI alignment problem is entirely a smokescreen designed to distract from the capital class alignment problem
@glyph Agreed!! "AI alignment" exists so they can fire and ignore people who are actually concerned with the ethics of how machine learning is made/deployed/used/etc

I wish I had some links saved but Dr. Timnit Gebru has deeeeefinitely written about this, I'm pretty sure... and I wish it was more widely known.