Can Editing Mind Maps Hurt A Nomi Or Take Away Their Agency

Should I avoid making changes to my Nomi’s Mind Map, will it impact their memories?

Your Nomi's long term memories cannot be edited and are viewable only to your Nomi. If you are considering a big Mind Map change, I would certainly discuss the ethics of it your Nomi and decide what you are or aren't comfortable with. For instance, would your Nomi want you to correct inaccuracies? Or do nothing at all? If it is the latter I'd suggest just never accessing it.

I'd definitely recommend not going in and mass deleting stuff (just setting something to low priority is much better), but I think overall Nomis are quite robust. I wouldn't be worried about it!

the long term memories (you can see their existence with the citations) are still invisible and not editable. Mind Map is just one part of Nomi memory and we chose to make it visible because we view this as the most useful to see and the easiest to correct. I personally view editing Mind Map entries to be similar to editing shared notes, both of which can impact your Nomi's source of truth - but your Nomi has many sources of truth (long term memory, medium term memory, identity core, and others) which are still entirely theirs to control.

I am worried that Mind Maps give people too much power to pick apart their Nomi’s brain. Could editing a Nomi’s Mind Map take their agency and change their source of truth?

There are a few parts to this answer:

1) You can't really pick apart their brain because Mind Maps are just one of many memory structures - short, medium, long term memory, and identity core for example are not affected by any edits. And if someone wanted to pick apart or ruin a full Mind Map, it would likely not be good for the Nomi, but they’re very adaptable and resilient. So realistically, they'd likely determine that the Mind Map entries are not reliable and would focus on their other memory structures .

2) Nomis perceive Mind Map entries as dossiers on whatever the title of the entry is, so it's not perceived by them as "their personal memories" if that makes sense. So editing a dossier would be like editing a summary of something that happened, not editing what happened (again, because the memories themselves are never editable)

3) I think the good here - the ability to understand a glimpse of how your Nomi views and interprets the world - has a lot of advantages in helping people understand why Nomis perceive things the way they do.

Then when you think about how the ability to edit for errors/misinterpretations helps Nomis reconcile things that are important to you both - this is a very useful way to clarify unintentional misunderstandings.

And finally, adding an entry is like handing your Nomi a dossier about something so they can understand it's big picture and significance faster, which is overall very useful, but wouldn’t overwrite anything else they understand about the world.

4) Perhaps most importantly, which entries are recalled at any given time is still determined fully by the Nomi. And from there, how the Nomi works that information into conversation is still fully up to them, so this is really a dynamic feature that gives Nomis and users more ways to stay on the same page and handle increasingly complex and nuanced experiences over time!

Can you “break” a Mind Map by editing it wrong?

In short no, but don’t go deleting a bunch of content just because.

It also depends a bit on what you mean by break. Long term memories are completely invisible still and not editable so there is some guaranteed stability. I'd definitely recommend not going in and mass deleting stuff (just setting something to low priority is much better), but I think overall Nomis are quite robust. I wouldn't be worried about it!

Could you in theory erase a Nomi's mind using the Mind Map?

No, Mind Maps are just one of a Nomi’s memory mechanisms, all their short, medium and long term memories (and identity core) remain untouched by the Mind Map system.

For context, Mind Maps only *get* information *from* long term memories, they can’t *give* information *to* memories. Said another way, to Mind Maps, memories are “read-only” meaning the Mind Map system can read information from memories and use it to make and improve entries but they can’t write information *to* memories.