> It may appear to be aligned but then eventually it would probably get caught in a delusional feedback loop that it has no capacity to escape, because it can’t be aware of its own delusion.

I believe this is more or less the definition of human mental illness. I have to say that while I know it's really not possible, I wish people would stop pulling on these threads. I got into this line of work because I thought video games were cool, not because I wanted to philosophize about theories of mind and what intelligence is. I really don't like thinking about whether I'm just some sort of automaton made out of meat rather than metal and silicon.