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Re:The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead by _heimdall on Friday August 28, 2026 @07:25AM (#49477057)
Oh we do agree there, control is more practical. I don't personally think alignment is even possible.

The problem with control is that it will fail at scale. We can't control something that is actually smarter than us, if AI (LLMs or otherwise) get there.

Chimps wouldn't last long trying to contains humans. Maybe for a while they'd keep us scared, but we would come up with ways to escape that the chimp could never have considered.

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Re:The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead by RandomLensman on Friday August 28, 2026 @07:57AM (#49477251)
I disagree there. Gut bacteria or parasites might have some control over us, for example.

Likewise humans can control more intelligent humans, for example - not really an issue.

Intelligence isn't some magic to escape physics, for example (or convince every human of anything it wants to).

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