Avoiding wireheading doesn’t seem like failed inner alignment—avoiding wireheading now can allow you to get even more pleasure in the future because wireheading makes you vulnerable/less powerful.
Even if this is the case, this is not why (most) humans don’t want to wirehead, in the same way that their objection to killing an innocent person whose organs could save 10 other people are not driven by some elaborate utilitarian arguments that this would be bad for the society.
Even if this is the case, this is not why (most) humans don’t want to wirehead, in the same way that their objection to killing an innocent person whose organs could save 10 other people are not driven by some elaborate utilitarian arguments that this would be bad for the society.