Isn’t there a separate axis for every aspect of human divergence? Maybe this was already explicit in asking if there is anything more complicated that romance for “multiplayer” relationships, but really this problem seems fully general: politics, or religion, or food, or any other preference that has a distribution among humans could be a candidate for creating schism (or indeed all axes at once). “Catgirl for romance” is one very specific failure mode, but the general one could be called “an echo chamber for every mind”.
The expected result (for a mind that knows the genesis of the catpeople) is that eventually the catpersons will get boring, but Fun Theory still ought to allow for exploration of that territory as long as it allows a safe path of retreat back into the world of other minds. The important thing here seems to be that we must never be allowed to have catpeople without knowing their true nature (which seems to be a form of wireheading).
Isn’t there a separate axis for every aspect of human divergence? Maybe this was already explicit in asking if there is anything more complicated that romance for “multiplayer” relationships, but really this problem seems fully general: politics, or religion, or food, or any other preference that has a distribution among humans could be a candidate for creating schism (or indeed all axes at once). “Catgirl for romance” is one very specific failure mode, but the general one could be called “an echo chamber for every mind”.
The expected result (for a mind that knows the genesis of the catpeople) is that eventually the catpersons will get boring, but Fun Theory still ought to allow for exploration of that territory as long as it allows a safe path of retreat back into the world of other minds. The important thing here seems to be that we must never be allowed to have catpeople without knowing their true nature (which seems to be a form of wireheading).