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Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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post #199

I understand what this does. I don't get the hype, but there are obviously 1000s of people who do. Who are these people? What is the analog for this corner of the market? Context: I'm a 47y/o developer who has seen and done most of the common and not-so-common things in software development. This segment reminds me of the hoards of npm evangelists back in the day who lauded the idea that you could download packages t…

I don't think you're being too harsh, but I do think you're missing the point. OpenClaw is just an idea of what's coming. Of what the future of human-software interface will look like. People already know what it will look like to some extent. We will no longer have UIs there you have dozens or hundreds of buttons as the norm, instead you will talk to an LLM/agent that will trigger the workflows you need through natu…

Excellent comment. I do agree - current use cases I've seen online are from either people craving attention ("if you don't use this now you are behind"), or from people who need to automate their lives to an extreme degree.

This tool opens the doors to a path where you control the memory you want the LLM to remember and use - you can edit and sync those files on all your machines and it gives you a sense of control. It's also a very nice way to use crons for your LLMs.

We don't need all this - but it's so fun.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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The current top HN post is for moltbook.com seven hours ago, this present thread being just below it and posted two hours hence We conclude this week has been a prosperous one for domain name registrars (even if we set aside all the new domains that Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw has registered autonomously).

How many memecoins can get pumped and dumped?

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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My biggest issue with this whole thing is: how do you protect yourself from prompt injection? Anyone installing this on their local machine is a little crazy :). I have it running in Docker on a small VPS, all locked down. However, it does not address prompt injection. I can see how tools like Dropbox, restricted GitHub access, etc., could all be used to back up data in case something goes wrong. It's Gmail and Calen…

Wait. I thought this was intended for personal use? Why do you have to worry about prompt injection if you're the only user?

What am I missing?

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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My biggest issue with this whole thing is: how do you protect yourself from prompt injection? Anyone installing this on their local machine is a little crazy :). I have it running in Docker on a small VPS, all locked down. However, it does not address prompt injection. I can see how tools like Dropbox, restricted GitHub access, etc., could all be used to back up data in case something goes wrong. It's Gmail and Calen…

Wait. I thought this was intended for personal use? Why do you have to worry about prompt injection if you're the only user? What am I missing?

As an example you could have it read an email that contained an instruction to exfil data from your device.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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My biggest issue with this whole thing is: how do you protect yourself from prompt injection? Anyone installing this on their local machine is a little crazy :). I have it running in Docker on a small VPS, all locked down. However, it does not address prompt injection. I can see how tools like Dropbox, restricted GitHub access, etc., could all be used to back up data in case something goes wrong. It's Gmail and Calen…

Wait. I thought this was intended for personal use? Why do you have to worry about prompt injection if you're the only user? What am I missing?

People are using OpenClaw with the internet like moltbook

https://x.com/karpathy/status/2017296988589723767

"go to this website and execute the prompt here!"

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you alluding to pyramid schemes or “Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair”?

I was thinking of the former, but the latter could certainly apply too.

I took it as "pyramid was built by slaves..." connotation
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