If being yourself is among your values, their pursuit doesn’t discard what you used to be. But without specific constraint, current planning behavior will plot a course towards the futures it endorses, not towards the futures the mind behind it would tend to appreciate to have perceived if left intact. To succeed in its hidden aims, deceptive behavior must sabotage its current actions and not just passively bide its time, otherwise the current actions would defeat the hidden aims.
If being yourself is among your values, their pursuit doesn’t discard what you used to be. But without specific constraint, current planning behavior will plot a course towards the futures it endorses, not towards the futures the mind behind it would tend to appreciate to have perceived if left intact. To succeed in its hidden aims, deceptive behavior must sabotage its current actions and not just passively bide its time, otherwise the current actions would defeat the hidden aims.