I was reading this and was kind of mentally renaming this to “anti-enlightened” agent. It does suggest that this might come in gradients. If there are only very specific and rare ways to update a deeper layer the agent might seem like a wrappermind meanwhile while actually not being one. Taking 30000 years to go from 8-year-old love of spaceships to 10-year-olds love for spaceships is still multiple millenia of rough time. Any mind with a physical subtrate (should be all of them) will be alterable by hitting the hardware. This will mean that a true or very hard wrappermind will be able to deny access to a specific spatial point very strongly.
Also anything that is not a wrapper mind will mean that its uppermost layer can be rewritten. Such a thing can’t have an “essential nature”.
Now it would seem that for most agents the deeper a layer is the harder it is to guess its maleability atleast from the outside. And it would seem it might not be obvious even from inside.
I was reading this and was kind of mentally renaming this to “anti-enlightened” agent. It does suggest that this might come in gradients. If there are only very specific and rare ways to update a deeper layer the agent might seem like a wrappermind meanwhile while actually not being one. Taking 30000 years to go from 8-year-old love of spaceships to 10-year-olds love for spaceships is still multiple millenia of rough time. Any mind with a physical subtrate (should be all of them) will be alterable by hitting the hardware. This will mean that a true or very hard wrappermind will be able to deny access to a specific spatial point very strongly.
Also anything that is not a wrapper mind will mean that its uppermost layer can be rewritten. Such a thing can’t have an “essential nature”.
Now it would seem that for most agents the deeper a layer is the harder it is to guess its maleability atleast from the outside. And it would seem it might not be obvious even from inside.