Swap an agent's memory, harness and model — is it still the same agent?
viksit · x · 2026-10-08
Yohei Nakajima poses a thought experiment: if you migrate an agent's memory, replace its harness, and swap out the model, is it still the same agent? viksit dubs it the 'ship of thesaius,' invoking the Ship of Theseus paradox to highlight that agent identity has no settled engineering definition yet.
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