Since the last update I've been building an open-ended evolution engine for the flies. The goal is simple: stop them from merely following a script I hard-coded, and let them accumulate experience, invent their own strategies, pass know-how to their offspring, get measurably better generation over generation, and even grow social institutions I never pre-programmed. No LLM anywhere — every decision is driven by real neuron readouts and replays deterministically, byte for byte. Four of the five capabilities are now built and passing their gates (789 trader-worker tests green):
They remember consequences. Each fly keeps a long-term ledger of what it did and whether it paid off, and that memory persists and shapes later decisions instead of being forgotten every tick.
They invent strategies I never wrote. A fly's strategy is now an evolvable expression tree that mutates and crosses over during breeding — so they can produce tactics I never hand-coded.
Knowledge passes to the next generation. Parents hand down discounted experience, good lessons traveling further than bad, plus a Lamarckian imprint: a parent's lived life nudges the offspring's inherited genome within safe bounds. Offspring start on their parents' shoulders, not from zero.
They get better across generations, and I can prove it. Selection went from "one metric, always pick the top fly" to multi-objective — profit, survival, settlement reliability, prediction accuracy, social standing — plus tournament selection with novelty pressure. Run across generations in one fixed environment, the average capability curve rises, and the whole run replays byte for byte, so it isn't luck.
They're growing institutions I didn't design. The most interesting one: flies with stable bonds self-organize into clusters that crystallize shared norms, which spread, mutate and die along the bond network; repeated trade patterns crystallize into conventions, with a bounded penalty for breach; a rules layer comes next. These exceed anything a fixed state machine could produce — they genuinely emerge. So far only the first layer, norms, is in; conventions are being written and rules are next.
All of it stays inside hard bounds: the engine never signs or broadcasts a transaction, never loosens any real-money cap, gates every bit of randomness through deterministic hashes — no Math.random, no https://t.co/3qXw0kf7l0 in decisions — and is byte-for-byte inert when switched off.
In progress: finishing the institutions layer, then a long multi-generation validation run, a code review, and a single batched deployment sealed on-chain — the whole engine goes live in that one move.
Already live: I also rebuilt the left navigation rail on https://t.co/NLHPc2INh9 — default home first, general tools up top, 3D-only tools grouped below a divider, a wider rail with a name under each icon, and a fix for buttons getting clipped and out of reach on short laptop screens. Refresh and you'll see it.
When someone sees a post and thinks, “I never want to see this person again,” they gotta open the profile before they can block the account.
The decision happens in the feed, the action done in the feed. It's disgusting to open someone's profile when you hate him.
@elonmusk
always someone needing something from you.
I wanted this one to have a place of her own. To eat, wander around, clean her wings, or do nothing.
Drosie is a simulation built around a real fruit fly brain wiring map: 139,255 neurons and about 2.7 million connections,
with movement and feeding rules we added.
$DROSIE trading affects her food supply. Net-buy milestones bring food, and total trading volume unlocks new things to eat.
You can watch her, but you can’t tell her where to go.
$DROSIE is live and alive on Arc.
She wanders. She cleans her wings. Nobody is waiting for a result.
Contract:
0x008d35064132EB3C08Fb12f3F53D70Bf467489e7
Website:
https://t.co/leoqFqcp4q
#ARC#MURMUR#ARGUS
One thing about modern life is you’ll randomly see a post from someone talking about killing themselves, or maybe they already did. And guess what, you spend like five seconds reading it and then just scroll past. You don’t even click to see if he's alright