Put me in the chaos camp—minor variations compound until they’re distinct people. And if you eliminate even tiny variance, they STILL diverge before they meet each other: one turned left and the other right out of their rooms.
I got something from the essay related to people who are brain uploads or RL+LLM or other programs that end up “humanlike but not actual meat people”.
There’s not just a question of whether chaos exists in our hardware, there’s a question of whether it is good that this chaos is in our hardware.
Should we want to pay costs to retain it, by adding it in on purpose for digital people, when retaining it might be expensive?
For meat people, the cheap thing is to be subject to it by default… but if should NOT put efforts into ADDING it for digital people, then maybe we should should also put efforts into reducing the influence of sensitive dependence on random input on ourselves.
Put me in the chaos camp—minor variations compound until they’re distinct people. And if you eliminate even tiny variance, they STILL diverge before they meet each other: one turned left and the other right out of their rooms.
I got something from the essay related to people who are brain uploads or RL+LLM or other programs that end up “humanlike but not actual meat people”.
There’s not just a question of whether chaos exists in our hardware, there’s a question of whether it is good that this chaos is in our hardware.
Should we want to pay costs to retain it, by adding it in on purpose for digital people, when retaining it might be expensive?
For meat people, the cheap thing is to be subject to it by default… but if should NOT put efforts into ADDING it for digital people, then maybe we should should also put efforts into reducing the influence of sensitive dependence on random input on ourselves.