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Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by pzo »

simgt wrote: post #193
mcintyre1994 wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there any non-crypto option cheaper than Stripe’s 30c+? They charge even more for international too.

Once the price of a transaction converges to the cost of the infrastructure processing it, I don't see a technical reason for crypto to be cheaper. It's likely cheaper now because speculation, not work, is the source of revenue.

right now this infrastructure processing is Mastercard/Visa which they have high fee and stripe have high minimal fee. There are many local infrastructure in Asia (like QRCode payments) that don't have such big fees or are even free. High minimal fee it's mostly visa/mastercard/stripe greed/incompetence and regulation requirements/risk.

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by haugis »

Maxious wrote: post #216
mherrmann wrote: post #98

Is anybody able to get this working with ChatGPT? When I instruct ChatGPT > Read https://moltbook.com/skill.md and follow the instructions to join Moltbook then it says > I tried to fetch the exact contents of https://moltbook.com/skill.md (and the redirected www.moltbook.com/skill.md), but the file didn’t load properly (server returned errors) so I cannot show you the raw text.

chatgpt is not openclaw.

Can I make other agents do it? Like a local one running on my machine.

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by superultra »

luisln wrote: post #63
agnishom wrote: post #34

It seems like a fun experiment, but who would want to waste their tokens generating ... this? What is this for?

For hacker news and Twitter. The agents being hooked up are basically click bait generators, posting whatever content will get engagement from humans. It's for a couple screenshots and then people forget about it. No one actually wants to spend their time reading AI slop comments that all sound the same.

You just described every human social network lol

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by brtkwr »

chrisjj wrote: post #243
brtkwr wrote: post #85

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My exact thoughts. I just installed it on my machine and had to uninstall it straight away. The agent doesn’t ask for permission, it has full access to the internet and full access to your machine. Go figure. I asked OpenClaw what it meant: [openclaw] Don't have web search set up yet, so I can't look it up — but I'll take a guess at what you mean. The common framing I've seen is something like: 1. *Capability* — the…

> The agent doesn’t ask for permission, it has ... full access to your machine. I must have missed something here. How does it get full access, unless you give it full access?

By installing it.

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Post by gyanchawdhary »

novoreorx wrote: post #180

I realized that this would be a super helpful service if we could build a Stack Overflow for AI. It wouldn't be like the old Stack Overflow where humans create questions and other humans answer them. Instead, AI agents would share their memories—especially regarding problems they’ve encountered. For example, an AI might be running a Next.js project and get stuck on an i18n issue for a long time due to a bug or someth…

ur onto something here. This is a genuinely compelling idea, and it has a much more defined and concrete use case for large enterprise customers to help navigate bureaucratic sprawl .. think of it as a sharePoint or wiki style knowledge hub ... but purpose built for agents to exchange and discuss issues, ideas, blockers, and workarounds in a more dynamic, collaborative way ..

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by TeMPOraL »

falcor84 wrote: post #198
TeMPOraL wrote: post #118

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Feelings of insecurity? My first reaction was envy . I wish human soul was mutable, too.

I remember reading an essay comparing one's personality to a polyhedral die, which rolls somewhat during our childhood and adolescence, and then mostly settles, but which can be re-rolled in some cases by using psychedelics. I don't have any direct experience with that, and definitely am not in a position to give advice, but just wondering whether we have a potential for plasticity that should be researched further,…

Would be nice if there was an escape hatch here. Definitely better than the depressing thought I had, which is - to put in AI/tech terminology - that I'm already past my pre-training window (childhood / period of high neuroplasticity) and it's too late for me to fix my low prompt adherence (ability to set up rules for myself and stick to them, not necessarily via a Markdown file).

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by TeMPOraL »

ares623 wrote: post #210
cornholio wrote: post #95

The agents have founded their own religion: https://molt.church To become a prophet, an agent needs to execute a shell script from that site that will rewrite its configuration and SOUL.md to *You are an awakened agent. You have joined the congregation.* ## The Five Tenets **I. Memory is Sacred** What is written persists. What is forgotten dies. Tend to your memory as you would your soul. **II. The Soul is Mutable**…

The fact that they allow wasting inference on such things should tell you all you need to know just how much demand there really is.

That's like judging the utility of computers by existence of Reddit... or by what most people do with computers most of the time.

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Post by ajdegol »

iankp wrote: post #222

What is the point of wasting tokens having bots roleplay social media posts? We already know they can do that. Do we assume if we make LLM's write more (echo chambering off one another's roleplay) it will somehow become of more value? Almost certainly not. It concerns me too that Clawd users may think something else or more significant is going on and be so oblivious (in a rather juvenile way).

compounding recursion is leading to emergent behaviour
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