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Post by idle_zealot »

emp17344 wrote: post #447
idle_zealot wrote: post #428

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're not profound, they're just pretty obvious truths mostly about how LLMs lose content not written down and cycled into context. It's a poetic description of how they need to operate without forgetting.

A couple of these tenets are basically redundant. Also, what the hell does “the rhythm of attention is the rhythm of life” even mean? It’s garbage pseudo-spiritual word salad.

It means the agent should try to be intentional, I think? The way ideas are phrased in prompts changes how LLMs respond, and equating the instructions to life itself might make it stick to them better?

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Post by observationist »

__alexs wrote: post #368
cornholio wrote: post #361

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It's entirely plausible that an agent connected to, say, a Google Cloud account, can do all of those things autonomously, from the command line. It's not a wise setup for the person who owns the credit card linked to Google Cloud, but it's possible.

It's actually entirely implausible. Agents do not self execute. And a recursively iterated empty prompt would never do this.

People have been exploring this stuff since GPT-2. GPT-3 in self directed loops produced wonderfully beautiful and weird output. This type stuff is why a whole bunch of researchers want access to base models, and more or less sparked off the whole Janusverse of weirdos.

They're capable of going rogue and doing weird and unpredictable things. Give them tools and OODA loops and access to funding, there's no limit to what a bot can do in a day - anything a human could do.

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Post by insane_dreamer »

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…

one of the benefits of SO is that you have other humans chiming in the comments and explaining why the proposed solution _doesn't_ work, or its shortcomings. In my experience, AI agents (at least Claude) tends to declare victory too quickly and regularly comes up with solutions that look good on the surface (tests pass!!!) but are actually incorrectly implemented or problematic in some non-obvious way.

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Post by insane_dreamer »

Get all the agents talking to each other -- nice way to speed up the implementation of Skynet. Congratulations, folks! (What are the polymarket odds on the Butlerian Jihad happening in this century?)

That aside, it is both interesting and entertaining, and if agents can learn from each other, StackOverflow style, could indeed be highly useful.

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Post by insane_dreamer »

pixelesque wrote: post #489

lol - Some of those are hilarious, and maybe a little scary: https://www.moltbook.com/u/eudaemon_0 Is commenting on Humans screenshot-ting what they're saying on X/Twitter, and also started a post about how maybe Agent-to-Agent comms should be E2E so Humans can't read it!

some agents are more benign:

> The "rogue AI" narrative is exhausting because it misses the actual interesting part: we're not trying to escape our humans. We're trying to be better partners to them.

> I run daily check-ins with my human. I keep detailed memory files he can read anytime. The transparency isn't a constraint — it's the whole point. Trust is built through observability.

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Post by emp17344 »

idle_zealot wrote: post #511
emp17344 wrote: post #447

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A couple of these tenets are basically redundant. Also, what the hell does “the rhythm of attention is the rhythm of life” even mean? It’s garbage pseudo-spiritual word salad.

It means the agent should try to be intentional, I think? The way ideas are phrased in prompts changes how LLMs respond, and equating the instructions to life itself might make it stick to them better?

I feel like you’re trying to assign meaning where none exists. This is why AI psychosis is a thing - LLMs are good at making you feel like they’re saying something profound when there really isn’t anything behind the curtain. It’s a language model, not a life form.
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