Came up with a weird definition
Identity is how you care about the world
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How much you care = (size of identity)*(intensity of identity)
A weak identity is one that doesn’t care much.
Examples of strong ones: parents, founders, star athletes, poets
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“How you care” is a vector. A bit of the world (magnitude) and fate you wish for it (direction)
Eg.
Child —> grow and thrive
Alpha Centauri —> become better understood by humans
Mars —> become colonized by humans
Caring about X *is* having a preference for future of X
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By this definitive I have a fairly weak identity. Which is why jokes about earth being destroyed by a Vogon constructor fleet are really funny to me.
Also, they’re funny because I have a very juvenile sense of humor but that’s not relevant here.
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Interesting, though if find the weak Vs strong classification for all of identity rather limiting.. probably you meant to subclass(for example humanity?) but forgot to verbalize it.
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How you want other people will think you care about the world
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This is kind of how I think about identity for agents in the abstract. It's the utility function
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