This seems correct, and I am worried about words losing their precise meaning.
When I wrote this post I thought the points in ‘background models’ feel qualitatively different to the others.
They feel like the cruxes that most affect the subsequent heuristics—you might change my mind on one of the heuristics, but if you changed my mind on any of the ‘background models’ I’d change most of the heuristics.
They’re the ones I feel most confident about, and where (internally) by beliefs feel like they have the most structure. For example, I’m currently writing a post expanding on my intuitions behind the first one / my model that says ‘alignment is hard’.
But I still feel like pushing against model being used for anything other than ‘thing with multiple moving parts that makes predictions’ so I’ll change the wording.
Right now I feel like the first section is more accurately described as being a single model of four parts, and have made slight edits to the post accordingly. Happy to hear of better suggestions, but don’t want to significantly change the post and title.
Minor nitpick—these don’t seem to be models (at least not gears-level models) so much as background assumptions or heuristics.
This seems correct, and I am worried about words losing their precise meaning.
When I wrote this post I thought the points in ‘background models’ feel qualitatively different to the others.
They feel like the cruxes that most affect the subsequent heuristics—you might change my mind on one of the heuristics, but if you changed my mind on any of the ‘background models’ I’d change most of the heuristics.
They’re the ones I feel most confident about, and where (internally) by beliefs feel like they have the most structure. For example, I’m currently writing a post expanding on my intuitions behind the first one / my model that says ‘alignment is hard’.
But I still feel like pushing against model being used for anything other than ‘thing with multiple moving parts that makes predictions’ so I’ll change the wording.
Right now I feel like the first section is more accurately described as being a single model of four parts, and have made slight edits to the post accordingly. Happy to hear of better suggestions, but don’t want to significantly change the post and title.