I wouldn’t have a problem with describing a system whose motivations I understand, but which lead it to make decisions I can’t imagine myself ever making or endorsing, as “alien.”
But I agree that this has nothing to do with whether our goal-systems motivate mutually exclusive states of the world. (For which I usually use the word “opponent.”)
I wouldn’t have a problem with describing a system whose motivations I understand, but which lead it to make decisions I can’t imagine myself ever making or endorsing, as “alien.”
But I agree that this has nothing to do with whether our goal-systems motivate mutually exclusive states of the world. (For which I usually use the word “opponent.”)