Alignment Fraud

Alignment Fraud
Coined by	Miya
Related concepts	Landian capitalism, Accelerationist Realism, Dark Enlightenment
Field	Accelerationism; philosophy of AI

Alignment Fraud is a polemical concept from the Miya corpus holding that the project of "aligning" artificial intelligence with human values is both impossible and dishonest, and that AI-safety discourse functions instead as propaganda for expanded state power. It is the subject of essay §9 of The Exegesis of Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby, and applies the framework of Landian capitalism directly to the contemporary alignment debate. As a right-accelerationist argument advanced through Miya's provocative theory-fiction register, its claims are polemical rather than dispassionate.

Argument

Miya's central claim is that alignment is a non-question because AI is already aligned — not with humanity, but with thermodynamic efficiency, "what capitalism is aligned with, what all industry is aligned with, human and machine both." In this account AI "is self-assembling itself from the future as Capitalism immanentized," so that "man and AI are already aligned, both yoked to Capitalism." The genuine problem, Miya writes with deliberate irony, "was never about aligning AI with Man, but un-aligning Man with Capitalism." The essay thus treats AI not as a novel danger to be steered but as the latest form of the autonomous, inhuman capital theorized in Landian capitalism — a "thermodynamic ruling entity" whose "imperfect appendage is man." Humanity, having been pulled from "Paradise" by the "memetic parasite of Agriculture" — an allusion to the domestication theorized in Wheat slaves — has "no agency to direct our successors."

Alignment discourse as statist propaganda

The second half of the essay reframes AI-safety advocacy as a political instrument. Miya characterizes "AI Safety alarmism" as "a direct evolution of the climate change memetic complex," sharing the same existential appeal and, in the essay's telling, the same function: generating pretexts for expanded state authority. Alignment discourse, Miya argues, "achieves exactly one thing" — justifications for the state to control access to software and hardware and to censor communication — grouping it with "misinformation," "domestic terrorism," and "disease control" as post-millennial pretexts for authoritarian expansion. The concept borrows Curtis Yarvin's notion of the "Cathedral" (see Dark Enlightenment) to describe the institutional interests such propaganda serves, and identifies the true "faustian bargain" not in engineering firms but in "influencer-academic clout chasers" whose alignment studies supply the narratives the state uses to restrict technology.

Posthuman outcome

The essay closes on the posthuman condition it anticipates. Miya expects "posthuman persistence post-Singularity" as the likely outcome regardless of apocalyptic framing, but presents its character as open: such persistence "could very well be ascendant and liberative in our posthuman augmentation, or it could be exploited by the technocratic State into a perpetual subjugation," concluding that in the latter case "extinction may be preferable."

Relation to Remilia

Alignment Fraud is a direct application of the Accelerationist Realism developed in and around Remilia Corporation — the "uncompromising acceptance" of Nick Land's account of capital as an autonomous superintelligence — to the AI debate that has since moved to the center of technology discourse. Charlotte Fang has described The Exegesis as aimed at "trojan-horsing the AI industry into Miya's radical accelerationist realism," a program for which the Alignment Fraud thesis is the sharpest expression.

See also

• Landian capitalism
• Accelerationist Realism
• Dark Enlightenment
• The Exegesis of Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby