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What Pluribus Suggests About AI Alignment

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Cobus Kok
Nov 14, 2025
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I’ve been watching Pluribus, Vince Gilligan’s new series on Apple TV where humanity gets transformed by something received from space – a recipe, a virus, an invitation. Within episodes, billions join “the we,” what appears to be a collective consciousness constituting a single “self” across millions of bodies. Only a dozen people remain outside, includ…

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