AI Alignment Is a Red Herring

“The best way to prevent a rogue AGI from processing the Earth into maximum paperclips is to unleash a second AGI that will work to stop it,” Matt Webb says . Sounds scary to me, but I’m ultimately convinced that having a lot of somewhat-powerful super-machines around, in contest and sometimes in cooperation, is a lot better than having just one uncontestedly super-powerful machine around. Much…