Most discussion of updatelessness suggests that Z is an agent similar to A and B, and also that it’s a policy whose implications are transparent to A and B. I think an importaint case has Z quite unlike A or B, possibly much smaller and more legible than them. And it can still be an agent in its own right, capable of eventually growing stronger than A or B were at the time Z was initially formulated. By a growing/developing Z I mean something that exists in coordination through both of these places, rather than splitting into a version of Z at A, and a version of Z at B, losing touch with each other.
Such a Z might be thought of as an environmental agent that A and B create near them, equipped to keep in contact with its alternative instance (knowing enough about both its instance near A and its instance near B), rather than specifically a commitment of A or B, or a replacement of A or B, or a result of merging A and B. The commitment of A and B is then to future interactions with Z, which the updateless/coordinated core of Z should be sufficiently aware of to plan for.
Most discussion of updatelessness suggests that Z is an agent similar to A and B, and also that it’s a policy whose implications are transparent to A and B. I think an importaint case has Z quite unlike A or B, possibly much smaller and more legible than them. And it can still be an agent in its own right, capable of eventually growing stronger than A or B were at the time Z was initially formulated. By a growing/developing Z I mean something that exists in coordination through both of these places, rather than splitting into a version of Z at A, and a version of Z at B, losing touch with each other.
Such a Z might be thought of as an environmental agent that A and B create near them, equipped to keep in contact with its alternative instance (knowing enough about both its instance near A and its instance near B), rather than specifically a commitment of A or B, or a replacement of A or B, or a result of merging A and B. The commitment of A and B is then to future interactions with Z, which the updateless/coordinated core of Z should be sufficiently aware of to plan for.