I would say yes. One of Albert’s values is to be transparent about his cognitive process.
but you are reading that as if self-awareness would be one of Albert’s values. The reason he wants to be self-aware is raise probability of safe self-edits. Being transparent is about raising the ease of verification by programmers. Self-awareness doesn’t work to this end.
Hiding one channel bears no implication on the visibility of any generated channels.
The only real downside is that if he becomes too reliant on such “telepathy” and doesn’t explicitly communicate it througt officail channels. I could recorn that pondering high-utility questions could soon become correlated with programmer presence.
Hiding one channel bears no implication on the visibility of any generated channels.
I think this is a good key point.
If the programmers wish to have a hidden channel, and Albert’s code independently suggests an identical channel that isn’t hidden (Because Albert just came up with the idea.) then it is perfectly fine to just implement the open channel and to have Albert remember that fact. The entire reason to have the hidden channel is to prevent Albert from going below a certain level of transparent communication.
If Albert voluntarily communicates more, that’s great, but you would still want to leave the hidden channel in as safety code.
but you are reading that as if self-awareness would be one of Albert’s values. The reason he wants to be self-aware is raise probability of safe self-edits. Being transparent is about raising the ease of verification by programmers. Self-awareness doesn’t work to this end.
Hiding one channel bears no implication on the visibility of any generated channels.
The only real downside is that if he becomes too reliant on such “telepathy” and doesn’t explicitly communicate it througt officail channels. I could recorn that pondering high-utility questions could soon become correlated with programmer presence.
I think this is a good key point.
If the programmers wish to have a hidden channel, and Albert’s code independently suggests an identical channel that isn’t hidden (Because Albert just came up with the idea.) then it is perfectly fine to just implement the open channel and to have Albert remember that fact. The entire reason to have the hidden channel is to prevent Albert from going below a certain level of transparent communication.
If Albert voluntarily communicates more, that’s great, but you would still want to leave the hidden channel in as safety code.