Probably not a full-monograph-length monograph, because I don’t think either that (1) the coherence-related confusions are isolated from other confused concepts in this line of inquiry, or that (2) the descendants of the concept of “coherence” will be related in some “nature-at-joint-carving” way, which would justify discussing them jointly. (Those are the two reasons I see why we might want a full-monograph-length monograph untangling the mess of some specific, confused concept.)
But an investigation (of TBD length) covering at least the first three of your bullet points seems good. I’m less sure about the latter two, probably because I expect that after the first three steps, a lot of new salient questions will appear, whereas the then-available answers to the relationship with capabilities will be rather scant (plausibly because the concept of capabilities itself would need to be refactored for more answers to be available), and that just the result of this single-concept-deconfusing investigation will have rather little implications for AGI X-risk (but might be a fruitful input to future investigation, which is the point).
Yeah.
Probably not a full-monograph-length monograph, because I don’t think either that (1) the coherence-related confusions are isolated from other confused concepts in this line of inquiry, or that (2) the descendants of the concept of “coherence” will be related in some “nature-at-joint-carving” way, which would justify discussing them jointly. (Those are the two reasons I see why we might want a full-monograph-length monograph untangling the mess of some specific, confused concept.)
But an investigation (of TBD length) covering at least the first three of your bullet points seems good. I’m less sure about the latter two, probably because I expect that after the first three steps, a lot of new salient questions will appear, whereas the then-available answers to the relationship with capabilities will be rather scant (plausibly because the concept of capabilities itself would need to be refactored for more answers to be available), and that just the result of this single-concept-deconfusing investigation will have rather little implications for AGI X-risk (but might be a fruitful input to future investigation, which is the point).