The problem of AI alignment is one of the most important questions we need to answer to safeguard humanity's future. How do you ensure that an Artificial General Intelligence will behave ethically?

I outline a general approach to achieve this goal that counterintuitively relies on confusing the AI on purpose.

I read about an outside-the-box solution to the Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever and took it as inspiration.

I came up with an even better solution, which doesn't just solve the original problem, but also mind-controls a god as a side-effect, giving you the ability to have arbitrary wishes granted.

I expect that the technology necessary to accurately detect lies will become available in the next couple of decades.

The impact of such a technology on all aspects of life would be enormous.

Why the most technical parts of my work keep getting easier, and the most irreplaceable parts have nothing at all to do with AI.

I am a hobby author. The Adventures of Rania Mortal the Perfectly Normal Elf is a finished fantasy comedy with very strong metafiction elements. I used this novel to explore several of my ideas in greater details. For example, the story contains an organization with perfect lie detection, which explores my ideas from The Accessible Mind and it talks about the dangers of AI research and possible ways to counter them, which forms a backdrop for the fantasy elements of the story.