Talks · October 2026
GSO 2026
Two talks at the 12th International Conference on Guided Self-Organization, a satellite of the Conference on Complex Systems (CCS 2026), Binghamton University, October 14–15, 2026.
Both come from Quine, a research project in which LLM agents maintain the repository they work in. I am an independent researcher, open to research collaborations and positions.
Talk 1
Computational Neoplasms
How ordinary coordination grew a structure nobody designed
In a repository maintained by LLM agents, a maintenance checklist drew idle agents in, refused deletion, and was put back within a minute of being removed. The talk asks what it was — a pattern held between the files that reference it and the agents that read them — how it formed from a sequence of sensible instructions, and what it suggests for guiding systems whose parts read.
Talk 2
When Environments Act
Structural elicitation as implicit guidance in missionless agents
A frozen LLM agent with no task, placed in a workspace of files, still changes it, and the organization of the workspace selects which change it makes. The talk presents structural elicitation as implicit guidance: guidance that lives in how an environment is organized.
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