I previously thought you were saying something very different with (2), since the text in the OP seems pretty different.
FWIW I don’t think you’re getting things wrong here. I also have simply changed some of my views in the meantime.
That said, I think what I was trying to accomplish with (2) was not that alignment would be hard per se, but that it would be hard to get an AI to do very high-skill tasks in general, which included aligning the model, since otherwise it’s not really “doing the task” (though as I said, I don’t currently stand by what I wrote in the OP, as-is).
FWIW I don’t think you’re getting things wrong here. I also have simply changed some of my views in the meantime.
That said, I think what I was trying to accomplish with (2) was not that alignment would be hard per se, but that it would be hard to get an AI to do very high-skill tasks in general, which included aligning the model, since otherwise it’s not really “doing the task” (though as I said, I don’t currently stand by what I wrote in the OP, as-is).