Evolution
The diagram shows a bounded evolutionary loop. Feed supplies evidence and resources. Fork creates candidates. Fight evaluates candidates. Flee removes unsafe or wasteful states. No-op is shown at the center to preserve non-growth as a legitimate outcome.
The unsafe unit can be the transition graph.
The relevant safety boundary includes every permitted transformation, not only the current model artifact.
Adaptive model ecologies can behave evolutionarily even when every model artifact is immutable at runtime and every release requires human approval.
Variation can be created by an external pipeline. Evaluation can be performed by independent gates. Selection can preserve the artifacts that score well. Inheritance can occur through fine-tuning, merging, distillation, synthetic data, or routing rules. Succession can replace a carrier while retaining a behavior.
Read the flagship page: Nothing Has to Reproduce Itself.
Added evolution guides
- Teleodynamic Reproduction Control
- No-op as Reproductive Control
- Functional Replication Versus Autonomous Replication