It's very hard to imagine humans prosper in a world with AGIs. What's the point of solving the alignment problem? Is it so that one ASI can create a civilization where AGIs will never exist and then self-destruct?

not as nice as map corresponding to territory tho

I don't like the term map, because it communicates something static. But the real world is not static. It evolves dynamically. Sure there are things in life which are for which I guess it is good to use the term, for instance mathematical theorems, physical laws, etc... But does anyone have a better term for the real world. Something like current-world-state. So that I could still say "my idea of current world state corresponds to the real world state" but shorter?