Ok yeah, my explanations didn’t make the connection clear. I’ll elaborate.
I have the impression “drift” has the connotation of uncontrolled, and therefore undesirable change. It has a negative connotation. People don’t want to value drift. If you call rational surface-value update “value drift”, it could confuse people, and make them less prone to make those updates.
If you only use ‘value drift’ only to refer to EA-value drift, it also sneaks in an implication that other value changes are not “drifts”. Language shapes our thoughts, so this usage could modify one’s model of the world in such a way that they are more likely to become more EA than they value.
I should have been more careful about implying certain intentions from you in my previous comment though. But I think some EAs have this intention. And I think using the word that way has this consequence whether or not that’s the intent.
Ok yeah, my explanations didn’t make the connection clear. I’ll elaborate.
I have the impression “drift” has the connotation of uncontrolled, and therefore undesirable change. It has a negative connotation. People don’t want to value drift. If you call rational surface-value update “value drift”, it could confuse people, and make them less prone to make those updates.
If you only use ‘value drift’ only to refer to EA-value drift, it also sneaks in an implication that other value changes are not “drifts”. Language shapes our thoughts, so this usage could modify one’s model of the world in such a way that they are more likely to become more EA than they value.
I should have been more careful about implying certain intentions from you in my previous comment though. But I think some EAs have this intention. And I think using the word that way has this consequence whether or not that’s the intent.