What Mr. Money Mustache thinks about AI alignment

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1. 7 Oct 2025

   Our readingA company that uses an algorithm to nudge customers into behavior that isn't good for them is doing something bad.

   Their wordsAny time a company uses an algorithm to get customers to do more of something that isn't necessarily good to them (whether it's watching Tiktok videos or buying stuff that is not a genuinely useful tool for improving their lives), it's bad.

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