From what I understand I would describe the skill Steven points to as “autonomously and persistently learning at deploy time”.
How would you feel about calling systems that posess this ability “self-refining intelligences”?
I think mastery, as Nathan comments above, is a potential outcome of employing this ability rather than the skill/ability itself.
Seems to me that “being nice” has multiple possible scopes and this is the generator of the disagreement.
I can be both nice in the form and/or content of my speech, as aphyer points out.
Gabriel seems to include “not inconveniencing others through factual disagreement” in “bing nice”, while you (and I think Scott, too) exclude it.