The speaker is somewhat skeptical of the claim that generalized-virtue or world-improvement specifications are easier to align models to, and says the claim has not been empirically validated.

“you know be a good fiduciary for the user and so on and so i think that's what that's at least what some people think i'm i'm a little skeptical personally and i don't think this has been empirically validated um and so i would say in some sense they're sort of like we are making a trade-off where because we don't have very good alignment technology we are going to like make an alien mind with its own values and then gamble on that”