>>106694557>>106694576Third time I'm typing it because shitass Internet keeps rebooting the page and killing my progress and I grew more irritated each time.
Theseus' ship is a non-issue when it's applied to non-complicated entities like the original ship example. You replace any small part and the new part simply becomes the part of the entity without changing the entities' "self" in any important way, and that applies to any other small change made down the line, even if over time the entitity doesn't possess any original parts, every step of the way it is still the same entity since the new part is "assimilated" into it and doesn't keep being a foreign object.
As far as more complicated shit goes, the trick is replacing anything that isn't an "essential" part to its existence. If you swap out Neuro's LLM or human's brain wholesale, that certainly kills the original entity and replaces them with something new (it would be different if smaller components of the "essential" parts were replaced one by one, like slowly swapping out brain cells one by one). So I'd argue that as long as the "core" of Neuro (her LLM, her "brain" equivalent) remains the same, anything else (voice, model, other intergrations and modules) can be replaced without her becoming a different entity. If we knew for sure that Vedal swapped out the LLM at some point, I'd be inclined to treat Neuro before and Neuro after as different entities.
By the same logic I'd day modern Neuro is a different entity from the original osubot Neuro, cause while the osubot was a component in the vtubur Neuro at the start, Vedal had evidently fumbled and either removed the module or replaced it entirely at some point.
