I feel like the reasons why MIRI circa 2014 moved away from talking about “Friendly AI” (because it was too anthropomorphic, etc.) and instead imported “alignment” to talk about the ~same issue also apply here. The “(re)friend(ing)” frame may make sense insofar as it’s meant to be used internally, but probably not a great choice for something that is intended to be more widely broadcast.
“Long alignment” seems not terrible, but there’s the whole “alignment to what”, as well as “alignment of what”. You can align yourself/[your values] to a Landian monstrosity, which you most likely don’t want.
How about “long healing”? It is spiritually/conotationally similar to “correction”, but I think it satisfies your desideratum of not having authoritarian connotations. It denotes things fitting well together (“alignment”), but also that not all ways of “fitting well together” are “created equal”, and that there are better/[more “natural”] and worse/[less “natural”] ways for things to fit well together.
I feel like the reasons why MIRI circa 2014 moved away from talking about “Friendly AI” (because it was too anthropomorphic, etc.) and instead imported “alignment” to talk about the ~same issue also apply here. The “(re)friend(ing)” frame may make sense insofar as it’s meant to be used internally, but probably not a great choice for something that is intended to be more widely broadcast.
“Long alignment” seems not terrible, but there’s the whole “alignment to what”, as well as “alignment of what”. You can align yourself/[your values] to a Landian monstrosity, which you most likely don’t want.
How about “long healing”? It is spiritually/conotationally similar to “correction”, but I think it satisfies your desideratum of not having authoritarian connotations. It denotes things fitting well together (“alignment”), but also that not all ways of “fitting well together” are “created equal”, and that there are better/[more “natural”] and worse/[less “natural”] ways for things to fit well together.