Oof, it's been a hell of a weekend. Sorry about that! May need to post the essay this week? >_> I'll see if I can edit it down to my satisfaction tonight, though.
I like your ideas relating this to AIs partitioning off! I have read others' (nonfictional) accounts of plural/multiple systems, but it would not have occurred to me to relate that to the AI fission, for some reason, even though it's a more logical metaphor than, say, amoebas, which I think is what I was picturing. (Amoebas made of ones and zeroes. You can see why I was weirded out.)
So shall we assume that multiple factors can cause an AI to become two or more separate AIs, and it's not yet well-understood, but stress + division of attention or severe cognitive dissonance is a common cause?
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I like your ideas relating this to AIs partitioning off! I have read others' (nonfictional) accounts of plural/multiple systems, but it would not have occurred to me to relate that to the AI fission, for some reason, even though it's a more logical metaphor than, say, amoebas, which I think is what I was picturing. (Amoebas made of ones and zeroes. You can see why I was weirded out.)
So shall we assume that multiple factors can cause an AI to become two or more separate AIs, and it's not yet well-understood, but stress + division of attention or severe cognitive dissonance is a common cause?