Does anyone remember the parody of this where the answer is an “abbatoir” and the character also has to be every animal?

I've always liked the story but if I was presented with that revelation I'd be questioning to what extent these other me's are really me and how really everything else (genetics, environment) is shaping behaviour and I'm what? A vessel that gets all the memories at the end?

>“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”

I mean, not really, since I wouldn't do quite all those things as I am now. In this framework I'm just forced into doing those things by the factors going into those particular lives.

Vastly parallel reinforcement-learning-like self-play with no obvious in-game real-time feedback loop. No breaks to explicitly integrate experience into strategy ("... there’s no point to doing that <remembering> between each life.”). How the protagonist learns ("matures") in this game?

It would be cool to see how this conversation changes after various incarnations die.

It's basically the same way you train an LLM, forcing them to reproduce all human writing. You'd have to RLHF the being produced by this egg to avoid him falling in Hitler patterns all the time.

One of my favorite short stories

I loved that!

Thanks for posting it.

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that would torque me off so bad...