Human beings are bad at regulating against problems we haven't experienced in major, profound ways; we're better at regulating after learning from harsh experience, but for the superintelligence misalignment problem, by the time it happens at scale, it's too late.

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human beings are just really bad at regulating against problems that we haven't experienced in some big, profound way... by the time it's already happened, it's too late

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Robot Plumbers, Robot Armies, and Our Imminent A.I. Future | Interesting Times with Ross DouthatInteresting Times with Ross Douthat
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:14:40 AM

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