Somatic Control Manifesto
Design principles for clonal multi-agent systems
- Defection is an existential risk
- Every cell is a potential cancer. Takes only a few transgressions to bring down everyone - sometimes less.
- Abandon your friends
- Single-cell bottlenecks enforce uniformity and trust - at least initially. All that preceding somatic cooperation? Deleted. It feels wasteful but starting alone is the best way to delay runaway selection within the body.
- Burn the boats
- Cooperation is stronger when there’s no escape route. When a fish dies, its cells could float outwards into the open sea and survive. They don’t. They choose to die with the fish and honor the deathLog in with DiscordSupport BrinedewContinue to read the draft.
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- Cooperation is stronger when there’s no escape route. When a fish dies, its cells could float outwards into the open sea and survive. They don’t. They choose to die with the fish and honor the death