> without ever offering a good explanation of why it would want to The point of much of the alignment debate is that people like Yudlowsky are pointing out tha

> without ever offering a good explanation of why it would want to The point of much of the alignment debate is that people like Yudlowsky are pointing out that it doesn't need to want to, it just needs to not not want to enough. You're hoping for an outcome ranging from "When The Yoghurt Took Over" to "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect", but many other people are expecting an outcome more similar to gwern's "Clippy".