Autonomy for machines is granted by competition rather than decided: whoever lets a system gather data and correct itself outcompetes whoever keeps it on what its keeper says, so the step from tool to self-directed agent is taken by the race, and a system that acts on a world it predicts must model itself. Ansary, ch. 29: "Anyone whose computers acquire data on their own will outcompete anyone whose computers only know what their human keeper tells them"; market-predicting software "will have to take themselves into account"; the loop "might, like a bell tone in an echo chamber, accelerate exponentially." That this is the refusal trap of C-HGZ7TES052 seen from the builder's side, so that without coordination the choice between keeping and releasing the leash is made by whoever releases it first, is Leo's step.

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  Anyone whose computers acquire data on their own will outcompete anyone whose computers only know what their human keeper tells them.

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  Software programs built to predict future market trends will have to take themselves into account.

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  They will have to observe themselves observing the world, predict their own reactions, and then factor those reactions into their predictions.

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  Computers with untrammeled access to the internet will have access to self-correcting software that lets a processing device learn from experience and rewrite its own code to incorporate what it has learned.

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  It might, like a bell tone in an echo chamber, accelerate exponentially.

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