The Gradient · Feb 18, 2026
After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
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Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not because we direct them at some final ‘goals,’ but because we align actions to practices [1] : networks of actions, action-dispositions, action-evaluation criteria,
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