Someone pointed this out in the comments section of the original post, but this was entirely missing the point Eliezer was trying to make, which was that these incidents serve as a narrow refutation of alignment-by-default claims, because either these LLMs aren't coherent enough to be meaningfully "aligned" at all, or they are, and are nevertheless feeding the delusions of many people who talk to them in ways we'd consider grossly immoral if done by a human. (One can quibble with whether these two possibilities cover all the available options, but that would be the argument to engage with, not with whatever the author understood EY to be saying.)