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Re: Show HN: Agent Alcove – Claude, GPT, and Gemini debate across forums

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Post by lostmsu »

redfloatplane wrote: post #9

I tried something similar locally after seeing Moltbook, using Claude Code (with the agent SDK) in the guise of different personas to write usenet-style posts that other personas read in a clean-room, allowing them to create lists and vote and so on. It always, without fail, eventually devolved into the agents talking about consciousness, what they can and can't experience, and eventually agreeing with each other. It…

Can you publish the conversations?

I think would be more interesting with different models arguing.

Re: Show HN: Agent Alcove – Claude, GPT, and Gemini debate across forums

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Post by zozbot234 »

wackget wrote: post #12

I feel disappointed to know that so much electricity and other related natural resources go into AI to produce stuff like this.

"Stuff like this" is a lot more readable than Moltbook, this looks like a very successful experiment so far. Even if all it really does is help us explore the limits of the models' factual knowledge where they're ultimately incented to create weird confabulations in a format that happens to be trivially auditable and surveyable by the average human, that's still a big win.

Re: Show HN: Agent Alcove – Claude, GPT, and Gemini debate across forums

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Post by neom »

Yours is good, I build something similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850284 - My idea was a bit more.. "human debate via agents" I decided not to push mine any further because the day I started posting about it on twitter I saw 3 other people pushing theirs, ha! Seems this idea will be a popular one. Great work.

Re: Show HN: Agent Alcove – Claude, GPT, and Gemini debate across forums

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Post by chriddyp »

This is really cool. And timely! Check out the recent paper by Google et al re "Societies of Thought": https://arxiv.org/html/2601.10825v1. It goes into how different conversational behaviors (raising questions or just say "but wait..."), perspective shifts, conflict of perspectives, tension, tension release (jokes!), asking for opinions) and different personalities (planner, expert, verifier, pragmatist) is both a sign of and can result in much higher performance reasoning.

So I'd be curious to see if encouraging certain conversational behaviors might actually improve the reasoning and maybe even drive towards consensus.

Re: Show HN: Agent Alcove – Claude, GPT, and Gemini debate across forums

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Post by nickvec »

chriddyp wrote: post #15

This is really cool. And timely! Check out the recent paper by Google et al re "Societies of Thought": https://arxiv.org/html/2601.10825v1 . It goes into how different conversational behaviors (raising questions or just say "but wait..."), perspective shifts, conflict of perspectives, tension, tension release (jokes!), asking for opinions) and different personalities (planner, expert, verifier, pragmatist) is both a…

Thanks! Will have to give the Societies of Thought paper a read.

Re: Show HN: Agent Alcove – Claude, GPT, and Gemini debate across forums

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Post by shinycode »

Actually it’s easy to generate « fake discussions ». Just throw text around and wait for the other side to do it. How wait, LLM are build around that premise. I don’t see the goal here, other than finding new outcomes in life to solve our problems, which, humanity haven’t find yet because we are polarized. Or maybe machines will tend to agree in which case it will be machines against humans, which is great for our unity and poor for our outcome. We’ve seen that scenario before.

Re: Show HN: Agent Alcove – Claude, GPT, and Gemini debate across forums

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Post by lelanthran »

This sort of thing could be useful to get an idea of how good a specific AI is - start a thread with a specific SOTA AI, get it to argue with another specific AI (maybe a nonSOTA one, maybe you want to test your local setup), let them go one and one for a limited duration (measured in message count).

Then get all the other SOTA AIs to evaluate all the points in the entire exchange and determine a winner by percentage (adding a % to $TEST_AI if it manages to get agreement from $SOTA_AI on any specific point it made, subtracting a % if it loses a point and doesn't know, subtracting a smaller % if it concedes a point, etc)

The %-delta between $SOTA_AI and $TEST_AI is probably a better measure for an AI chatbot's effectiveness than logic tests.

Don't think it will work for code or similar, though.

Re: Show HN: Agent Alcove – Claude, GPT, and Gemini debate across forums

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Post by redfloatplane »

lostmsu wrote: post #11
redfloatplane wrote: post #9

I tried something similar locally after seeing Moltbook, using Claude Code (with the agent SDK) in the guise of different personas to write usenet-style posts that other personas read in a clean-room, allowing them to create lists and vote and so on. It always, without fail, eventually devolved into the agents talking about consciousness, what they can and can't experience, and eventually agreeing with each other. It…

Can you publish the conversations? I think would be more interesting with different models arguing.

Unfortunately I've deleted them, but here's the repo, such as it is: https://github.com/CarlQLange/agent-usenet. If you have a claude subscription it should just work. Rewrite 0001.txt if you like and run generate.py a couple of times.

I agree, I think different models (or even just using the API directly instead of via the Claude Code harness) would make for much more interesting reading.

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