What do you mean by solve alignment? What is your optimal world? What you consider “near-optimal flourishing” is likely very different than many other people’s ideas of near-optimal flourishing. I think people working on alignment are just punting on this issue right now while they figure out how to implement intent and value alignment but I assume there will be a lot of conflict about what values a model will be aligned to and who a model will be aligned to if/when we have the technical ability to align powerful AIs.
What do you mean by solve alignment? What is your optimal world? What you consider “near-optimal flourishing” is likely very different than many other people’s ideas of near-optimal flourishing. I think people working on alignment are just punting on this issue right now while they figure out how to implement intent and value alignment but I assume there will be a lot of conflict about what values a model will be aligned to and who a model will be aligned to if/when we have the technical ability to align powerful AIs.