Quine began by realizing frozen LLMs as native POSIX processes, opening a space to investigate the emergence of coordination, communication protocols, and self-reproduction.
As its runtime, experiments, logs, instructions, and theories accumulated in the same repository, the research environment became a research object. Its structure shapes the agents doing the research; their discoveries reshape that structure.
I use this reflexive laboratory to explore artificial life, complex systems, AI safety, and the computational foundations of discovery.
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Emergent coordination
Cooperation through shared environments, even without explicit knowledge of other agents.
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Self-reproduction
How inherited material and future demands shape what an agent becomes across a process boundary.
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Reflexive governance
How self-maintaining structures form, persist, and sometimes become detached from their purpose.