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> Every day, thousands of researchers race to solve the AI alignment problem. But they struggle to coordinate on the basics, like whether a misaligned superintelligence will seek to destroy humanity, or just enslave and torture us forever. Who, then, aligns the aligners?

I love how this fake organization describes itself:

> We are the world's first AI alignment alignment center, working to subsume the countless other AI centers, institutes, labs, initiatives and forums ...

> Fiercely independent, we are backed by philanthropic funding from some of the world's biggest AI companies who also form a majority on our board.

> This year, we interfaced successfully with one member of the public ...

> 250,000 AI agents and 3 humans read our newsletter

The whole thing had me chuckling. Thanks for sharing it on HN.

7 days agoby cs702

My first instinct was to think this was satire and I exuded a chuckle.

My second instinct was a brief moment of panic where I worried that it might NOT be satire, and a whole world of horror flashed before my eyes.

It's okay, though. I'm better now. We're not in that other world yet.

But, for a nanosecond or two, I found myself deeply resonating with the dysphoria that I imagine plagued Winston Smith. I think I may just need to sit with that for a while.

7 days agoby forbiddenvoid

This is some expert level trolling. Too funny.

Thank AGI, somebody's finally 'lining up the aligners.. The EA'ers, the LessWrong'ers, the X-risk'ers, the AI-Safety'ers, ...

https://alignmentalignment.ai/caaac/blog/explainer-alignment

6 days agoby aanet

> This year we reached a significant milestone:

> We successfully interacted with a member of the public.

> Because our corporate Uber was in the process of being set up, we had to take a public bus. On that bus, we overheard a man talking about AI on the phone.

> "I don't know," he said. "All the safety stuff seems like a load of bullshit if you ask me. But who cares what I think? These tech bros are going to make it anyway."

> He then looked over in our direction, giving us an opportunity to shrug and pull a face.

> He resumed his conversation.

> We look forward to more opportunities to interact with members of the public in 2026!

6 days agoby rossant

Department of Redundancy Department

(please knock twice please)

7 days agoby thisisauserid

But who will the align the aligner of aligners? :(

6 days agoby halgir

This in response to things like this Care Bears wackiness? https://www.alignmentbears.com/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45204694)

7 days agoby ChrisArchitect

I don't know if it's intended (and if so, hat tip to the designer), but the logo is not aligned: the arrows should form an X in negative space, but the horizontal distance between the left & right arrows is smaller than the vertical distance between the top & bottom ones.

6 days agoby franky47

"Subscribe unless you want all humans dead forever" made me laugh out loud.

6 days agoby mjamesaustin

Few years ago I argued we need a comparison site for insurance comparison sites. But soon there would be more than one and we would have to compare those, and so on...

6 days agoby jakubmazanec

Let’s start the Alignment Excellence Center.

7 days agoby vjvjvjvjghv

Kind of like when air-conditioned cars started getting popular in the 1970's.

People wanted a full "factory air" conditioned car from a fully factory air-conditioned factory . . .

I expect Mr. Tirebiter wouldn't settle for less ;)

6 days agoby fuzzfactor

The HQ is out west near Hawtch-Hawtch, but they primarily do field work.

7 days agoby stockresearcher

How do I donate?

7 days agoby rf15

I tried to apply, but all I got was the shoddy 4k remaster of my favourite song

6 days agoby rf15

Clearly we need a decentralized version of that.

6 days agoby layer8

Ponzi's going all out, huh? Unbelievable ...

You don't need alignment if you don't go all the way to super-intelligence aka free intelligence. And since nobody is gonna let that happen ever, #mass_surveillance, nobody needs alignment.

So all these centers and centers of centers are just more opportunities to sell hardware and take away actually necessary jobs. Like two different commissions in one Bundesland to assess whether the measures during the corona pandemic were "xyz". JAAA. NEEEIN.

I would say gg, Ponzi, but you are not a winner or an authority if you beat the shit out of and poison pups and think you're a champ when you keep them in cages once they grow up.

This is all so weird. What the fuck xD

6 days agoby wtbdbrrr

I actually have a game idea playing around with this idea. Sure, the AI is 'aligned' but what does that even mean? Because if you think about it humans have been pretty terrible.

7 days agoby impure

Very Severence-ish name.

6 days agoby maxekman

this is people thinking they are dunking on AI skeptics/doomers but in reality not

7 days agoby smeeger

Obligatory meme allusion: https://xkcd.com/927/

7 days agoby dpflan