Can you imagine being so passionate about theory and understanding that you’ll build your life around maximizing having an accurate world model (math, physics, philosophy, theology, introspection and extreme honesty) at the cost of losing your execution skills and employability but out of nowhere God drops a magical box that executes anything you need if you just give an accurate command in English? And now you are a perfect execution brain to action machine? If I would come up with a science fiction way of improving my life prospects from 0 to 100 I would assume that is too unrealistic to keep the story interesting and yet here we are.

you should presumably update from 'emergent misalignment' that incompetence and evil are more closely aligned than you think, and if you care about becoming a good person, you should care about becoming very competent (a different, deeper argument to 'you can do more good when more competent') good things are correlated; 'emergent misalignment' is an instantiation of this broader truth throrndike 1920 via @gwern 'everything is correlated': "in human nature good traits go together. To him that hath a superior intellect is given also on the average a superior character; the quick boy is also in the long run more accurate; the able boy is also more industrious. [...] The rule is that desirable qualities are positively correlated." this is one reason why 'the orthogonality thesis' has always been suspect. in theory intelligence prosociality can go apart; in practice (pretraining-on-human-data), good things go together and this is also one reason why excessive rationalist decoupling is suspect. what we need instead isn't unsystematic contextualization: it's the systematic study of what is coupled to what and careful decision-making on the basis of this in practice, the capable agent acting under a well-posed regime generates lots of positive externalities