20 weak agents bid for tasks; bankrupt agents are replaced by mutations of the wealthiest survivors. Watch economic selection raise collective performance past a stronger monolithic baseline — the Economy of Minds mechanism. Toggle difficulty, step through rounds, observe wealth cycles.
The Darwin Machine — tap Easy / Medium / Hard to set task difficulty · ← → arrows to step one round at a time · tap an agent circle to see its wealth and generationopen artifact ↗
Llama-3.1-8B starts at 15.9% on MATH. Put it in an auction economy and it reaches 57.0% — beating a stronger monolithic baseline. The mechanism is Hayek: decentralized price signals, wealth accumulation, and economic selection pressure do what central orchestration can't.