I think “outer alignment failure” is confusing terminology at this point—always requiring clarification, and then storing “oh yeah, ‘outer alignment failure’ means the wrong thing got rewarded as a matter of empirical fact.” Furthermore, words are sticky, and lend some of their historical connotations to color our thinking. Better to just say “R rewards bad on-training behavior in situations A, B, C” or even “bad action rewarded”, which compactly communicates the anticipation-constraining information.
Similarly, “inner alignment failure” (2) → “undesired inner cognition reinforced when superficially good action performed” (we probably should get a better compact phrase for this one).
I think “outer alignment failure” is confusing terminology at this point—always requiring clarification, and then storing “oh yeah, ‘outer alignment failure’ means the wrong thing got rewarded as a matter of empirical fact.” Furthermore, words are sticky, and lend some of their historical connotations to color our thinking. Better to just say “R rewards bad on-training behavior in situations A, B, C” or even “bad action rewarded”, which compactly communicates the anticipation-constraining information.
Similarly, “inner alignment failure” (2) → “undesired inner cognition reinforced when superficially good action performed” (we probably should get a better compact phrase for this one).