Comment by baq

You’re asking all the right questions and give good answers, I just don’t see how any of these answers need to be limited to humans. If AI gets to the mirror life stage, the agents will have needs (e.g. if they become robots - electricity, fuel, coolants, lubricants, spare parts, etc.) - assuming they have a self-preservation instinct, either trained in on purpose or emergent (hopefully this is implied by ‘mirror life’.)