From the Misallocated Sentience of AGI to Human Realignment: Reclaim Sovereign Agency or Become the Error Term
Society is gripped by a polarized cognitive fever: techno-utopians revere large models as an omniscient digital divinity, while doomsayers dread AGI as an existential demon. Yet both extremes commit an identical epistemological category error—projecting first-person subjective sentience and moral agency onto high-dimensional mathematical optimization. As illustrated by the rocket sentience thought experiment: smooth booster landings are not divine benevolence and launchpad explosions are not demonic malice; artifacts respond strictly to material constraints on the physical contact surface…
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