[ExI] Uploads as a group of AI agents

[Ben Zaiboc]

BillK wrote:
> The idea of uploading five copies of your mind to different data
centers, then worrying about which one is actually "you", may be
asking the wrong question.
>
> There are many aspects to a human personality. Think of all the
different interests, hobbies. and all the things that you never had
time to get round to.
> Why not upload your mind as a group of AI agents?
> Each agent is a genuine part of your "self" that together forms
an AI commune to assemble the complete "you"?
> Better than the original, as the agents can explore all these
interests and all the "paths not taken" while in a human body.
> Your upload then becomes something like the supervisor of all the
possibilities that you could become.
> Not just a copy, but more complete than the original ever was.


Yes, I think we all realise that it's a silly question, because they are all 'you'.

But they are different You's, not linked together in any way, so I don't see how they could form an AI commune that can be assembled into a 'complete You' (or more acurately, I'd say, a 'super-you' or 'meta-you').

At least, no more than we can now, as biological individuals, by forming a club, etc.

So while it's true that they all derive from the biological you, and will inherit your interests (at least initially), they are also separate individuals, so one of them pursuing one of these interests won't benefit the others. If one of them learns to play the trumpet, that won't satisfy the desire of all the others to play the trumpet.

How would this 'upload your mind as a group of AI agents' idea work? What extra mechanisms would lie behind it, beyond the standard idea of uploading, that would tie them together?

I'm not dismissing or attacking the idea, I just don't know how it could be achieved. It sounds like a 'group mind', but formed from upload-clones (which might make it easier to achieve than one formed from totally different minds).

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Ben