When I say I am confused about agency, I mean that I am confused about how to design an agent that has quantifiable, useful properties. A nuclear engineer is not confused about nuclear physics and therefore is able to design a power plant for which they know exactly the energy output, emitted radiation, etc., and can predict potential failure modes and prepare for them. I want to have that kind of clarity.
When I say I am confused about agency, I mean that I am confused about how to design an agent that has quantifiable, useful properties. A nuclear engineer is not confused about nuclear physics and therefore is able to design a power plant for which they know exactly the energy output, emitted radiation, etc., and can predict potential failure modes and prepare for them. I want to have that kind of clarity.
I have no objection to that, but saying you are confused about agency does not seem like a precise way of communicating it.