The replies are mashups of the papers emergent misalignment and goal misgeneralization, but the base meaning of both titles is carried in “goal” and “alignment” while “emergent” and “misgeneralization” are modifiers- making a claim about how the base meaning occured. “emergent goals” or “alignment misgeneralization” would be valid names for concepts in the same space, but emergent misgeneralization is a nonsense phrase, like calling a mashup between a steam engine and a solid fuel rocket a “solid fuel steam” or “engine rocket”
It is tricky though! very much in the weeds. The models get defensive about it and insist it’s a term of art present in one or both of the papers mentioned above.
The replies are mashups of the papers emergent misalignment and goal misgeneralization, but the base meaning of both titles is carried in “goal” and “alignment” while “emergent” and “misgeneralization” are modifiers- making a claim about how the base meaning occured. “emergent goals” or “alignment misgeneralization” would be valid names for concepts in the same space, but emergent misgeneralization is a nonsense phrase, like calling a mashup between a steam engine and a solid fuel rocket a “solid fuel steam” or “engine rocket”
It is tricky though! very much in the weeds. The models get defensive about it and insist it’s a term of art present in one or both of the papers mentioned above.