Less important: TBC, it’s really not about “literary character”. I think I was quite clear in my reply to J Bostom that we are indeed using AI character in a broad way to refer to “the alignment target”. If AI generalises in quite different ways to humans, then I would just say that AI character is different to any human character. But if the way that it generalises is predictable and not crazy complex, I think it will still be important to think about it, and I think that we could likely still use human language to describe it.
I used the two extremes of the potential meaning as an illustration to clarify how the post is confusing and equivocates between multiple meanings. I continue to think that is the case. I agree that in some sentences you are talking about the broader thing, and some other sentences don’t make many any sense if they were referring to the broader thing.
I disagree—I think we just use it for the broader thing. What sentences do we use it to refer to literary character?
I’m particularly surprised that you say the post equivocates, given that you seem to understand me when I reframe the post in terms of the alignment target.
Less important: TBC, it’s really not about “literary character”. I think I was quite clear in my reply to J Bostom that we are indeed using AI character in a broad way to refer to “the alignment target”. If AI generalises in quite different ways to humans, then I would just say that AI character is different to any human character. But if the way that it generalises is predictable and not crazy complex, I think it will still be important to think about it, and I think that we could likely still use human language to describe it.
I used the two extremes of the potential meaning as an illustration to clarify how the post is confusing and equivocates between multiple meanings. I continue to think that is the case. I agree that in some sentences you are talking about the broader thing, and some other sentences don’t make many any sense if they were referring to the broader thing.
I disagree—I think we just use it for the broader thing. What sentences do we use it to refer to literary character?
I’m particularly surprised that you say the post equivocates, given that you seem to understand me when I reframe the post in terms of the alignment target.