Dalek: A Constructive Agent Machine
Read the original on arXiv AI →Dalek is a closed machine designed for agents that achieves self‑maintenance, self‑evolution, self‑reproduction, and self‑organization on any substrate that meets a general host contract. It is constructed from three primitives—actors, messages, and channels—and governed by four obligations: a host boundary, a construction language, admissible transitions, and rule heredity. Building on Von Neumann’s 1948 self‑reproducing automaton, Dalek incorporates a hereditary constructional core (self‑description, constructor, copier, controller) and extends it with explicit structures for boundary, identity, history, and growth, allowing a large language model and compiler to generate new capabilities that are compiled, installed, and inherited by descendants.
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