Would AGIs parent young AGIs?

Duplicates - digital copies as opposed to genetic clones - might not require new training (unless a whole/partial restart/retraining was being done).

When combined with self-modification, there could be 'evolution' without 'deaths' of 'individuals' - just continual ship of Theseus processes. (Perhaps stuff like merging as well, which is more complicated.)

A strong contender would be to write a descendant rather than raising one. If a human writes an AGI and AGI are superior to humans then an AGI can write a descendant.

The whole thing with culture and raising is that humans have a way of awakening the construction of knowledge and reconstructing key pieces of information in an otherwise blankish hardware (ie genetic passing of information ("rich hardware") isn't used for actual content of mind but epigenetic process are used for that). Most humans coould not build a psychology from the ground up, maybe some bookwriters or advanced psychologics could. But parenting doesn't require you to have a good theory of mind in order to get a good mind like having penetrative intercourse doesn't require a good sense of anatomy while still producing perfectly good anatomy. If you develop enough insight into pregnancy you can have test tube babies and if you can good enough insight why education works you can jsut have a correctly reasoning system.

Now if a AGI would write a child they might not rewrite a version of themselfs or even a small-delta impression. There might be sense of identifying harmful tendendcies and outrigth wrong knowledge that you expressly don't pass on forward. Information that truly passes the test of time - some sort of constitutional intelligence - might be better released into the world without a more detailed image of the finery or non-constituional bits. But if you are truly going to let the child figure things itself out then biasing that process would defeat the point.

So an AGI that understands how it functions it would probably write rather than raise a child. But if humans made an AGI come about that wasn't written then the default could be that the big data or whatever process could look like rearing descendants.

Althought humans are thought to be intelligent they lack the property of explaining or accessing in detail what makes them intelligent. So the degree of introspective access isn't guaranted from existence. But I think to the extent that humans know how to write they children they would prefer it. There might be a tipping point where being a social dad is more important than being a biological dad, where disciples are more central than family. Like organism will further the needs of the species over the individual organism so might species come serve cultures over their own good (memes over genes).

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