Martin Randall comments on The Hidden Complexity of Wishes

[Martin Randall]

I think it’s important to be able to make a narrow point about outer alignment without needing to defend a broader thesis about the entire alignment problem.

Indeed. For it is written:

A mind that ever wishes to learn anything complicated, must learn to cultivate an interest in which particular exact argument steps are valid, apart from whether you yet agree or disagree with the final conclusion, because only in this way can you sort through all the arguments and finally sum them.

For more on this topic see “Local Validity as a Key to Sanity and Civilization.”