What Happens When You Merge Two Artificial Individuals?
Two individuals from the swap. Identical brain architecture, the same sensory world, conflicting answer keys. Each one is competent in its own world and actively wrong in the other. Post 4 ended on the question this post answers: blend the two into one and do you get both, a winner that erases the other, a broken mess, or something that belongs to neither? I ran it. Here is what actually came…
When merging two artificial individuals with identical brain architecture but conflicting answer keys, the result is not a harmonious third individual. Instead, the merger degrades both skill sets, with one history dominating over the other. On average, the merged individual performs worse than either parent, scoring 0.66 in the world they excel in and 0.16 in the world they struggle in.
Moreover, a fifth of the responses belong to neither parent, indicating that the merger does not blend the two individuals' knowledge but rather creates confusion and a lack of coherence. This experiment demonstrates that simple union merging of memories does not create a unified mind but instead results in a degraded version of both individuals and unresolved conflicts. Further research is needed to develop better methods for merging artificial individuals' memories.
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