Oops! Sorry, was using polygamy as a purely anthropological term, but yeah, it has a lot of awful baggage. That is a horrific quote, too, damn. I'm happy to change the wording to "polyamory" or "poly," and (if I am speaking strictly legally) "polyamorous marriages."
I'd like to polish it and make it actually legible and organized! But sure, I can make it its own little essay post! (It will be sometime this weekend, though, I'm busy tomorrow night and ...seriously, like five things that couldn't be put off intersected this week and this is the first night in a week I've gone to sleep before 3 AM. Am a bit tired.)
The AI fission thing is SUPER WEIRD, IDEK -- the fission thing is from Digital, where apparently an AI usually doesn't even choose it -- they just suddenly split! And then it's never mentioned in Analogue, presumably because we've already seen enough disturbing shit in those games, but some of the AI copying taboos carried over and so did the * designation, so I feel like the intentionally created AIs in Analogue must in some way be "descendants" (not literally perhaps) of the accidentally-evolving ones in Digital. I'm not even sure human-created AIs are able to reproduce by fission, but I kind of suspect humans never quite learned to create AIs from scratch, instead swiping code from donors (hopefully willing) and changing the personality/skillset, so maybe they haven't been able to figure out how to turn that bug/feature off.
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I'd like to polish it and make it actually legible and organized! But sure, I can make it its own little essay post! (It will be sometime this weekend, though, I'm busy tomorrow night and ...seriously, like five things that couldn't be put off intersected this week and this is the first night in a week I've gone to sleep before 3 AM. Am a bit tired.)
The AI fission thing is SUPER WEIRD, IDEK -- the fission thing is from Digital, where apparently an AI usually doesn't even choose it -- they just suddenly split! And then it's never mentioned in Analogue, presumably because we've already seen enough disturbing shit in those games, but some of the AI copying taboos carried over and so did the * designation, so I feel like the intentionally created AIs in Analogue must in some way be "descendants" (not literally perhaps) of the accidentally-evolving ones in Digital. I'm not even sure human-created AIs are able to reproduce by fission, but I kind of suspect humans never quite learned to create AIs from scratch, instead swiping code from donors (hopefully willing) and changing the personality/skillset, so maybe they haven't been able to figure out how to turn that bug/feature off.