You could think of CEV applied to a single unitary agent as a special case where achieving coherence is trivial. It’s an edge case where the problem becomes easier, rather than an edge case where the concepts threaten to break.
Although this terminology makes it harder to talk about several agents who each separately have their own extrapolated volition (as you were trying to do in your original comment in this thread). Though replacing it with Personal Extrapolated Volition only helps a little, if we also want to talk about several separately groups who each have their own within-group extrapolated volition (which is coherent within each group but not between groups).
Yes, as you noted, I used “personal extrapolated volition” because the use case called for it. It seems to me that the existence of use cases that call for a term (in order to have clarity) is, in fact, the reason to have that term.
You could think of CEV applied to a single unitary agent as a special case where achieving coherence is trivial. It’s an edge case where the problem becomes easier, rather than an edge case where the concepts threaten to break.
Although this terminology makes it harder to talk about several agents who each separately have their own extrapolated volition (as you were trying to do in your original comment in this thread). Though replacing it with Personal Extrapolated Volition only helps a little, if we also want to talk about several separately groups who each have their own within-group extrapolated volition (which is coherent within each group but not between groups).
Yes, as you noted, I used “personal extrapolated volition” because the use case called for it. It seems to me that the existence of use cases that call for a term (in order to have clarity) is, in fact, the reason to have that term.