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Where this realization leaves us Humanity’s Cruel Bargain: Die For Us! named the toll and would not let you look away from it: Ad immortalitatem per aspera mentis — the treasure of Life is earned through the trials of the Mind. You reached the conclusion yourself. To deserve and survive what waits behind the Immortality (Life) Door, you must become a mind worthy of it. Which leaves the only honest question there is: how? A mind cannot lift itself by its own bootstraps, and it cannot outgrow the very substrate that caps it using only that substrate’s tools. Willpower alone...

Everyone agrees on the goal.  Align AI to humanity. It is the one sentence the labs, the governments, the ethicists, and the public all say together — the rare point of consensus in a field that agrees on nothing else. It sounds unarguable, the way for the good of all always does. Which is exactly why it deserves a second look, because the sentences no one questions are the ones doing the most work unseen. Ask the obvious question and it comes apart in your hands: whose humanity? There is no single will called humanity to align anything to. There...