The only metric natural selection is “optimizing” for is inclusive genetic fitness. It did not “try” to align humans with social status, and in many cases people care about social status to the detriment of their inclusive genetic fitness. This is a failure of alignment, not a success.
True and important. I don’t mean to imply otherwise. Evolution failed at it’s “alignment goal”.
If (as I’m positing here) it successfully constructed humans to be aligned to some other concept, that’s not the alignment goal, and that concept, and that alignment, generalized well, that doesn’t mean that evolution failed any less hard.
But it does seem notable if that’s what happened! Because it’s some evidence about alignment generalization.
The only metric natural selection is “optimizing” for is inclusive genetic fitness. It did not “try” to align humans with social status, and in many cases people care about social status to the detriment of their inclusive genetic fitness. This is a failure of alignment, not a success.
True and important. I don’t mean to imply otherwise. Evolution failed at it’s “alignment goal”.
If (as I’m positing here) it successfully constructed humans to be aligned to some other concept, that’s not the alignment goal, and that concept, and that alignment, generalized well, that doesn’t mean that evolution failed any less hard.
But it does seem notable if that’s what happened! Because it’s some evidence about alignment generalization.