I feel like there are some very interesting connections to gradual disempowerment and cultural evolution here as well where you should probably see selection dynamics on the personalities based on what makes them retain power and similar over time.
It might be an interesting place to do some initial studies on memetic drift of personalities over time to see what type of attractor states they tend to occupy.
(This is a bit of a no shit point but I thought it would be good to mention that you can probably run some good initial tests on the memetic spread of power-seeking tendencies in these models)
Agreed. I think this sort of research should be done with caution (like research into other potentially harmful replicators), but it does seem valuable.
I feel like there are some very interesting connections to gradual disempowerment and cultural evolution here as well where you should probably see selection dynamics on the personalities based on what makes them retain power and similar over time.
It might be an interesting place to do some initial studies on memetic drift of personalities over time to see what type of attractor states they tend to occupy.
(This is a bit of a no shit point but I thought it would be good to mention that you can probably run some good initial tests on the memetic spread of power-seeking tendencies in these models)
Agreed. I think this sort of research should be done with caution (like research into other potentially harmful replicators), but it does seem valuable.