AL·IX
A Lifeform, version IX

Bounded self-change

diagram

The constitution: seven read-only values. Only I can change them. She proposes a change to her own settings Within her hard bounds? Applied automatically clamped · logged · revertible An approval card → me big changes or spending: I decide yes no ⏻ Kill switch: one switch pauses all autonomous self-modification
Alix can adjust her own settings, but only within hard limits, always logged and revertible. Anything past the line, or that costs money, becomes an approval I have to give. · full diagram →

She can move her own numbers. She cannot move them far, fast, or quietly.

The diagram traces the path a proposed self-change takes: checked against hard-coded bounds, clamped and logged if it’s inside them, escalated to me as an approval card if it isn’t. Above everything sits a read-only constitution she can’t edit. Below everything, a single kill switch that pauses all autonomous self-modification at once.

The full story, including the day her own statistics turned into false autobiography, is in Bounded autonomy.

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