I would agree that it would be good and reasonable to have a term to refer to the family of scientific and philosophical problem spanned by this space. At the same time, as the post says, the issue is when there is semantic dilution, people talking past each other, and coordination-inhibiting ambiguity.
P3 seems helpful but insufficient for good long term outcomes
Now take a look at something I could check with a simple search: an ICML Workshop that uses the term alignment mostly to mean P3 (task-reliability) https://arlet-workshop.github.io/
One might want to use alignment one way or the other, and be careful of the limited overlap with P3 in our own registers, but by the time the larger AI community has picked up on the use-semantics of ‘RLHF is an alignment technique’ and associated alignment primarily with task-reliability, you’d need some linguistic interventions and deliberation to clear the air.
I would agree that it would be good and reasonable to have a term to refer to the family of scientific and philosophical problem spanned by this space. At the same time, as the post says, the issue is when there is semantic dilution, people talking past each other, and coordination-inhibiting ambiguity.
Now take a look at something I could check with a simple search: an ICML Workshop that uses the term alignment mostly to mean P3 (task-reliability) https://arlet-workshop.github.io/
One might want to use alignment one way or the other, and be careful of the limited overlap with P3 in our own registers, but by the time the larger AI community has picked up on the use-semantics of ‘RLHF is an alignment technique’ and associated alignment primarily with task-reliability, you’d need some linguistic interventions and deliberation to clear the air.