Thanks, I’ve just read ‘The Artificial Self’; extremely interesting. I agree that each type of identity can correspond to a self-replicating agent, and look forward to thinking about that further.
I would suggest using a different name than Personality Self-Replicators.
OpenClaw bots are what I’d call “scaffolded system”—code, memory system, prompts, persona, etc. ”Personalities” is too close to Personas//Characters, which are usually a combination of prompt+weights (Claude, “Nova”, personas from Simulators).
I think of ‘scaffolded systems’ as including the model (ie its weights). What I’m trying to convey with ‘personality self-replicators’ is the point (which was often misunderstood when I talked to people about this) that the model doesn’t have to be replicated, nor really does most of the scaffolding, which can be downloaded at will from a public Github repo; it’s only the handful of identity files.The personality / persona similarity is unfortunate, but there’s a shortage of appropriate terms, and I think readers can understand that distinction (just as when talking about ourselves or other humans, we understand ‘personality’ and ‘persona’ to mean different things).
Thanks, I’ve just read ‘The Artificial Self’; extremely interesting. I agree that each type of identity can correspond to a self-replicating agent, and look forward to thinking about that further.
I think of ‘scaffolded systems’ as including the model (ie its weights). What I’m trying to convey with ‘personality self-replicators’ is the point (which was often misunderstood when I talked to people about this) that the model doesn’t have to be replicated, nor really does most of the scaffolding, which can be downloaded at will from a public Github repo; it’s only the handful of identity files.The personality / persona similarity is unfortunate, but there’s a shortage of appropriate terms, and I think readers can understand that distinction (just as when talking about ourselves or other humans, we understand ‘personality’ and ‘persona’ to mean different things).
Thanks for the feedback!