I feel like a substantial amount of disagreement between alignment researchers are not object-level but semantic disagreements, and I remember seeing instances where person X writes a post about how he/she disagrees with a point that person Y made, with person Y responding about how that wasn’t even the point at all. In many cases, it appears that simply saying what you don’t mean could have solved a lot of the unnecessary misunderstandings.
I feel like a substantial amount of disagreement between alignment researchers are not object-level but semantic disagreements, and I remember seeing instances where person X writes a post about how he/she disagrees with a point that person Y made, with person Y responding about how that wasn’t even the point at all. In many cases, it appears that simply saying what you don’t mean could have solved a lot of the unnecessary misunderstandings.