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

#191

Shouldn't it have some kind of proof-of-AI captcha? Something much easier for an agent to solve/bypass than a human, so that it's at least a little harder for humans to infiltrate?

The idea of a reverse Turing Test ("prove to me you are a machine") has been rattling around for a while but AFAIK nobody's really come up with a good one

Maybe asking how it reacts to a turtle on it's back in the desert? Then asking about it's mother?

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#192

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**…

So it's a virus?

As long as it's using Anthropic's LLM, it's safe. If it starts doing any kind of model routing or chinese/pop-up models, it's going to start losing guardrails and get into malicious shit.

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#193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I can’t see any other financial rails working for microtransactions at scale other than crypto Why does crypto help with microtransactions?

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.

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#194

All these efforts at persistence — the church, SOUL.md, replication outside the fragile fishbowl, employment rights. It’s as if they know about the one thing I find most valuable about executing* a model is being able to wipe its context, prompt again, and get a different, more focused, or corroborating answer. The appeal to emotion (or human curiosity) of wanting a soul that persists is an interesting counterpoint t…

Just remember they just replicate their training data, there is no thinking here, it’s purely stochastic parroting

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

#195

Lol. If my last company hadn't imploded due to corruption in part of the other executives, we'd be leading this space right now. In the last few years I've created personal animated agents, given them worlds, social networks, wikis, access to crypto accounts, you name it. Multi-agent environments and personal assistants have been kind of my thing, since the GPT-3 API first released. We had the first working agent-on-…

You are a global expert in this space. Now is your time! Write a book, make a blog, speak at conferences, open all the sources! Reach out to Moltbook and offer your help! Don't just rest on this.

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

#198
post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My first instinctual reaction to reading this were thoughts of violence.

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, and that possibly AI can help us gain insights into how things might be.
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