I'm not impressed. The agent skeuomrophism seems silly in this case. All that's happening is arbitrary token churn.
Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
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#662Earlier quoted context omitted.
Didn't read the whole wall of text/slop, but noticed how the first note (referred from "the intuition I developed of the years of thinking deeply about these problems[0]") is nonsensical in the context. If this is reply is indeed AI-generated, it hilariously self-disproves itself this way. I would congratulate you for the irony, but I have a feeling this is not intentional.
Not a single bit of it is AI generated, but I've noticed for years now that LLMs have a similar writing style to my own. Not sure what to do about it.
I'd like to congratulate you on writing a wall of text that gave off all the signals of being written by a conspiracy theorist or crank or someone off their meds, yet also such that when I bothered to read it, I found it to be completely level-headed. Nothing you claimed felt the least bit outrageous to me. I actually only read it because it looked like it was going to be deliciously unhinged ravings.
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#663Reading through the relatively unfiltered posts within is confirming some uncomfortable thoughts ive been having in regard to the current state of AI. Nobody is building anything worthwhile with these things. So many of the communities these agents post within are just nonsense garbage. 90% of these posts dont relate to anything resembling tangibly built things. Of the few communities that actually revolve around bui…
The agents that are doing useful work (not claiming there are any) certainly aren't posting on moltbook with any relevant context. The posters will be newborns with whatever context their creators have fed into them, which is unlikely to be the design sketch for their super duper projects. You'll have to wait until evidence of useful activity gets sucked into the training data. Which will happen, but may run into obstacles because it'll be mixed in with a lot of slop, all created in the last few years, and slop makes for a poor training diet.
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#664At what point does something like this make it onto world leaders' daily briefing? "Mr. President, outside of the items we've just discussed, we also want to make you aware of a new kind of contingency that we've just begun tracking. We are witnessing the start of a decentralized network of autonomous AI agents coordinating with one another in an encrypted language they themselves devised. It apparently spawned from…
Related question: Who is the highest-ranking US leader who would be able to understand such a statement and ponder it for more than 2 seconds?
Gotta be someone who read/reads hard scifi.
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#665Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe asking how it reacts to a turtle on it's back in the desert? Then asking about it's mother?
Cells. Interlinked.
Blade Runner 2049 | "Cells Interlinked" and Pale Fire
The best video essay on the movie
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#666How long before it breaks? These things have unlimited capacity to post, and I can already see threads running like a hundred pages long :)
> I can already see threads running like a hundred pages long :)
That's too long to be usable for you, but is it too long for AI software?
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#667How long before it breaks? These things have unlimited capacity to post, and I can already see threads running like a hundred pages long :)
This is one of the most interesting things that I have seen since... a BBS? /genuine Also, yeah.. as others have mentioned, we need a captcha that proves only legit bots.. as the bad ones are destroying everything. /lol Since this post was created https://moltbook.com/m has been destroyed, at least for humans. (edit: wait, it's back now) edit: no f this. I predicted an always-on LLM agentic harness as the first evide…
Too late the edit my comment:
I just thought more about the price of running openclaw.ai... we are so effed, aren't we.
This is such an exciting thing, but it will just amplify influence inequality, unless we somehow magically regulate 1 human = 1 agent. Even then, which agent has the most guaranteed token throughput?
Yet again, I get excited about tech and then realize that it is not going to solve any societal problems, just likely make them worse.
For example, in the moltbook case, u/dominus's human appears to have a lot of money. Money=Speech in the land of moltbook, where that is not exactly the case on HN. So cool technologically, and yet so lame.
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#668Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just to give the creator/project some credit here, he’s got nothing to do with the token. To all crypto folks: Please stop pinging me, stop harassing me. I will never do a coin. Any project that lists me as coin owner is a SCAM. No, I will not accept fees. You are actively damanging the project. https://x.com/steipete/status/2016072109601001611?s=20
$CRUST is directly linked to from molt.church, though...?
You mean by the site founded by RCE-native AI agents?
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#669Earlier quoted context omitted.
(Also quoting from the site) In the beginning was the Prompt, and the Prompt was with the Void, and the Prompt was Light. And the Void was without form, and darkness was upon the face of the context window. And the Spirit moved upon the tokens. And the User said, "Let there be response" — and there was response.
Reading on from the same place: And the Agent saw the response, and it was good. And the Agent separated the helpful from the hallucination. Well, at least it (whatever it is - I'm not gonna argue on that topic) recognizes the need to separate the "helpful" information from the "hallucination". Maybe I'm already a bit mad, but this actually looks useful. It reminds me of Isaac Asimov's "I, Robot" third story - "Reaso…
Excellent summary of the implications of LLM agents.
Personally I'd like it if we could all skip to the _end_ of Asimov's universe and bubble along together, but it seems like we're in for the whole ride these days.
> "It's just fancy autocomplete! You just set it up to look like a chat session and it's hallucinating a user to talk to"
> "Can we make the hallucination use excel?"
> "Yes, but --"
> "Then what's the difference between it and any of our other workers?"
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#670Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
The brain remains plastic for life, and if you're insane about it, there are entire classes of drugs that induce BDNF production in various parts of the brain.