In your concept I see something like a theory-of-theories, or a meta-theory. Right now we have many possible theories of alignment, sometimes competing, and we don’t seem to have a good way to select between them. Well, this ecological approach is a candidate. It is advantageous because it classifies the strengths, commonalities, and weaknesses of all the alternative approaches. You have expanded on these advantages already in the piece above but that is my interpretation. I think yours is an interesting approach for structuring thinking. That is what we need in this pre-paradigmatic field.
I have been trying to create an alignment language as well. I have gone for a Popperian approach, trying to create falsifiability and iterating the theory until I achieve that. Slowly getting there! Mine is more a theory though, whereas I have read yours as more abstract, encompassing mine.
My work also seemed arbitrary at first. But yours seems to have a strong core structure on which to build, so I think the edges can be smoothed out and applications developed!
I would be interested in the Autumn workshop, if there is a mailing list or something? I have signed up for the Equilibria Network Luma calendar. Cheers!
Very cool.
In your concept I see something like a theory-of-theories, or a meta-theory. Right now we have many possible theories of alignment, sometimes competing, and we don’t seem to have a good way to select between them. Well, this ecological approach is a candidate. It is advantageous because it classifies the strengths, commonalities, and weaknesses of all the alternative approaches. You have expanded on these advantages already in the piece above but that is my interpretation. I think yours is an interesting approach for structuring thinking. That is what we need in this pre-paradigmatic field.
I have been trying to create an alignment language as well. I have gone for a Popperian approach, trying to create falsifiability and iterating the theory until I achieve that. Slowly getting there! Mine is more a theory though, whereas I have read yours as more abstract, encompassing mine.
My work also seemed arbitrary at first. But yours seems to have a strong core structure on which to build, so I think the edges can be smoothed out and applications developed!
I would be interested in the Autumn workshop, if there is a mailing list or something? I have signed up for the Equilibria Network Luma calendar. Cheers!