That makes sense. I, personally, am interested in developing new terminology for talking about not-necessarily-conscious-and-yet-systematically-deceptive cognitive algorithms, where Ben and Jessica think that “lie”/”fraud”/&c. are fine and correct.
I see great need for some way to indicate “not-an-accident but also not necessarily conscious or endorsed.” And ideally the term doesn’t have a judgmental or accusatory connotation.
This seems pretty hard to do actually. Maybe an acronym?
For ‘things that aren’t an accident but aren’t necessarily conscious or endorsed’, another option might be to use language like ‘decision’, ‘action’, ‘choice’, etc. but flagged in a way that makes it clear you’re not assuming full consciousness. Like ‘quasi-decision’, ‘quasi-action’, ‘quasi-conscious’… Applied to Zack’s case, that might suggest a term like ‘quasi-dissembling’ or ‘quasi-misleading’. ‘Dissonant communication’ comes to mind as another idea.
When I want to emphasize that there’s optimization going on but it’s not necessarily conscious, I sometimes speak impersonally of “Bob’s brain is doing X”, or “a Bob-part/agent/subagent is doing X”.
That makes sense. I, personally, am interested in developing new terminology for talking about not-necessarily-conscious-and-yet-systematically-deceptive cognitive algorithms, where Ben and Jessica think that “lie”/”fraud”/&c. are fine and correct.
I see great need for some way to indicate “not-an-accident but also not necessarily conscious or endorsed.” And ideally the term doesn’t have a judgmental or accusatory connotation.
This seems pretty hard to do actually. Maybe an acronym?
Alice lied (NIANOA) to Bob about X.
Not Intentionally And Not On Accident
For ‘things that aren’t an accident but aren’t necessarily conscious or endorsed’, another option might be to use language like ‘decision’, ‘action’, ‘choice’, etc. but flagged in a way that makes it clear you’re not assuming full consciousness. Like ‘quasi-decision’, ‘quasi-action’, ‘quasi-conscious’… Applied to Zack’s case, that might suggest a term like ‘quasi-dissembling’ or ‘quasi-misleading’. ‘Dissonant communication’ comes to mind as another idea.
When I want to emphasize that there’s optimization going on but it’s not necessarily conscious, I sometimes speak impersonally of “Bob’s brain is doing X”, or “a Bob-part/agent/subagent is doing X”.