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Alignment is undecidable, so no point wasting synapseseconds.
It's not a matter to decide but a problem to try and solve. In most cases we get to learn from our mistakes but when it comes to AGI we might not.
Or are you suggesting we shouldn't even think about it but rather just roll the dice and see what happens?
Undecidable in the sense that no solution can exist for that problem class. You can start with the definition of what exactly you're aligning with, how you measure that, how you derive applicable system evolution constraints from your measurements, and just what humanity is, in the iterative context.
Apart from that we're already in an out of control winner-takes-all arms race where AI is used by competing nations, including social control and battlefield. Ivory tower is a meal ticket with no practical relevance.