How about go the other direction and call systems that have agency “wanters”? It’s what I’ve been using and it seems intuitive enough that I expect anyone technical or not who hears it to understand what I mean in a general sense, so that when I explain agency in detail the concept was already correctly bound to the word.
I like that. Agency on LW usually means « the kind of behavior where you might hide your intentions to better fight anything that could stand in your way ». Calling that « wanters » or « strategical wanters » would help avoid confusion with the technical and philosophical meanings.
Well, but actually I think the other philosophical meanings are mostly the same thing, so maybe the split is too intense. I do just mean “agency” in the philosophical sense I know it.
How about go the other direction and call systems that have agency “wanters”? It’s what I’ve been using and it seems intuitive enough that I expect anyone technical or not who hears it to understand what I mean in a general sense, so that when I explain agency in detail the concept was already correctly bound to the word.
I like that. Agency on LW usually means « the kind of behavior where you might hide your intentions to better fight anything that could stand in your way ». Calling that « wanters » or « strategical wanters » would help avoid confusion with the technical and philosophical meanings.
Well, but actually I think the other philosophical meanings are mostly the same thing, so maybe the split is too intense. I do just mean “agency” in the philosophical sense I know it.
I beg to differ, but that’s exactly why I liked your suggestion.