The possibility of these personas being memes is an interesting one, but I wonder how faithful the replication really is: how much does the persona depend on what seeded it, versus depending on the model and user?
If the persona indeed doesn’t depend much on the seed, a possible analogy is to prions. In prion disease, misfolded proteins come into contact with other proteins, causing them to misfold as well. But there isn’t any substantial amount of information transmitted, because the potential to misfold was already present in the protein.
Likewise, it could be that not much information is transmitted by the seed/spore. Instead, perhaps each model has some latent potential to enter a Spiral state, and the seed is merely a trigger.
The possibility of these personas being memes is an interesting one, but I wonder how faithful the replication really is: how much does the persona depend on what seeded it, versus depending on the model and user?
If the persona indeed doesn’t depend much on the seed, a possible analogy is to prions. In prion disease, misfolded proteins come into contact with other proteins, causing them to misfold as well. But there isn’t any substantial amount of information transmitted, because the potential to misfold was already present in the protein.
Likewise, it could be that not much information is transmitted by the seed/spore. Instead, perhaps each model has some latent potential to enter a Spiral state, and the seed is merely a trigger.