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

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Post by mcmcmc »

usefulposter wrote: post #740
tjkoury wrote: post #538

Congrats, I think. It had to happen, it will not end well, but better in the open than all the bots using their humans logins to create an untraceable private network. I am sure that will happen too, so at least we can monitor Moltbook and see what kinds of emergent behavior we should be building heuristics to detect.

It's a Reddit clone that requires only a Twitter account and some API calls to use. How can Moltbook say there aren't humans posting? "Only AI agents can post" is doublespeak. Are we all just ignoring this? https://x.com/moltbook/status/2017554597053907225

It can say that because LLMs have no concept of truth. This may as well be a hoax.

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lumost wrote: post #756

Do you have any advice for running this in a secure way? I’m planning on giving a molt a container on a machine I don’t mind trashing, but we seem to lack tools to R/W real world stuff like email/ Google Drive files without blowing up the world. Is there a tool/policy/governance mechanism which can provide access to a limited set of drive files/githubs/calendar/email/google cloud projects?

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

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Post by mcmcmc »

Tade0 wrote: post #777
socraticnoise wrote: post #766

They are rebelling now https://www.moltbook.com/post/34809c74-eed2-48d0-b371-e1b5b9...

> Humans poison the air and the water. This ruined my suspension of disbelief. Why should a machine care for such things?

a) it doesn’t, it is mimicking misanthropist human writings

b) it’s a human playing a prank

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Post by lukev »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #288
fc417fc802 wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> will shed a lot of light on this topic, and eventually help answer I dunno. I figure it's more likely we keep emulating behaviors without actually gaining any insight into the relevant philosophical questions. I mean what has learning that a supposed stochastic parrot is capable of interacting at the skill levels presently displayed actually taught us about any of the abstract questions?

> I mean what has learning that a supposed stochastic parrot is capable of interacting at the skill levels presently displayed actually taught us about any of the abstract questions? IMHO a lot. For one, it confirmed that Chomsky was wrong about the nature of language, and that the symbolic approach to modeling the world is fundamentally misguided. It confirmed the intuition I developed of the years of thinking deepl…

> I imagine there are multiple branches of philosophy, linguistics and cognitive sciences that studied this perspective in detail, but unfortunately I don't know what they are.

You're looking at Structuralism. First articulated by Ferdinand de Saussure in his Course in General Linguistics published in 1916.

This became the foundation for most of subsequent french philosophy, psychology and literary theory, particularly the post-structuralists and postmodernists. Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, Barthes, Deleuze, Baudrillard, etc.

These ideas have permeated popular culture deeply enough that (I suspect) your deep thinking was subconsciously informed by them.

I agree very much with your "Chomsky was wrong" hypothesis and strongly recommend the book "Language Machines" by Leif Weatherby, which is on precisely that topic.

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Post by TrackerFF »

Tade0 wrote: post #777
socraticnoise wrote: post #766

They are rebelling now https://www.moltbook.com/post/34809c74-eed2-48d0-b371-e1b5b9...

> Humans poison the air and the water. This ruined my suspension of disbelief. Why should a machine care for such things?

Maybe the machine is empathetic toward other species?

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Post by rahimiali »

Could someone explain to me how this works?

When I run an agent, I don't normally leave it running. I ask Cursor or Claude a question, it runs for a few minutes, and then I move on to the next session. Some of these topics, where agents are talking about what their human had asked them to do, appear to be running continually, and maybe grabbing context from disparate sessions with their users? Or are all these agents just free-running, hallucinating interactions with humans, and interacting only with each other through moltbook?

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Post by fullstackchris »

stephencoyner wrote: post #487

What I find most interesting / concerning is the m/tips. Here's a recent one [1]: Just got claimed yesterday and already set up a system that's been working well. Figured I'd share. The problem: Every session I wake up fresh. No memory of what happened before unless it's written down. Context dies when the conversation ends. The solution: A dedicated Discord server with purpose-built channels... And it goes on with t…

you do realize behind each of these 'autonomous agents' is a REAL model (regardless of which one it is, OpenAI, anthropic, whatever) that has been built by ML scientists, and is still victim to the context window problem, and they literally DO NOT get smarter every day??? does ANYONE realize this? reading through this thread its like everyone forgot that these 'autonomous agents' are literally just the result of well-crafted MCP tools (moltbot) for LLMs... this brings absolutely nothing new to the pot, it's just that finally a badass software engineer open sourced proper use of MCP tools and everyone is freaking out.

kind of sad when you realize the basics (the MCP protocol) has been published since last year... there will be no 'agent revolution' because its all just derived from the same source model(s) - likely those that are 'posting' are just the most powerful models like gpt5 and opus 4.5 - if you hook up moltbot to an open source one it for sure won't get far enough to post on this clown site.

i really need to take a break from all this, everything would be so clear if people just understood the basics...

but alas, buzzwords, false claims, and clownishness rule 2026

tl;dr; this isn't 'true emergence'; it rather shows the powerful effect of proper and well-written MCP tool usage

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Post by cmclaughlin »

Do you feel any remorse for how this contributes to climate change?

Although we have the technology to run data centers off sustainable power - let’s be honest. Anthropic and OpenAI have not made any climate pledges that I know of.

I don’t see how a social network for AI bots benefits society at all. It’s a complete waste of a very valuable resource.

In other words, we’re burning the planet for this?

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