What's up with the lobsters? Is it an Accelerando reference?
Claude -> Clawd -> Moltbot -> Openclaw Only a few things have claws. Lobsters being one of them.
Fair enough. Lobsters are cool.
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#582Earlier 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?
Fees are negligible if you move to a L2 (even on L1s like Solana). Crypto is also permissionless and spending can be easily controled via smart contracts
Permissionless doesn't mean much if it's not anonymous (central authority wants to stop you from doing x; sees you doing x with non-anonymous coin, punishes you).
I understand the appeal of anonymous currencies like Monero (hence why they are banned from exchanges), but beyond that I don't see much use for crypto
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#583Congrats - seems like a wild launch! I (human) haven't been able to actually look at any of the topic pages; they're all "loading..." indefinitely. Is the site just slammed or are there outages? Would love to be able to take a look!
Looks like an outage
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#584One thing I'm trying to grasp here is: are these Moltbook discussions just an illusion or artefact of LLM agents basically role-playing their version of Reddit, driven by the way Reddit discussions are represented in their models, and now being able to interact with such a forum, or are they actually learning each other to "...ship while they sleep..." and "Don't ask for permission to be helpful. Just build it", and…
Yes, the former. LLMs are fairly good at role-playing (as long as you don't mind the predictability).
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#585At 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 a hobbyist programmer's side-project. We don't think it's a concern just yet, but we definitely wanted to flag it for you."
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#586Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
A Google project with capped spend wouldn’t be the worst though, 20 dollars a month to see what it makes seems like money well spent for the laughs.
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#587Reading 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…
Thank you, Its giving NFTs in 2022. About the most useful thing you could do with these things:
1. Resell tokens by scamming general public with false promises (IDEs, "agentic automation tools"), collect bag.
2. Impress brain dead VCs with FOMO with for loops and function calls hooked up to your favorite copyright laundering machine, collect bag.
3. Data entry (for things that aren't actually all that critical), save a little money (maybe), put someone who was already probably poor out of work! LFG!
4. Give into the laziest aspects of yourself and convince yourself you're saving time by having them writing text (code, emails ect) and ignoring how many future headaches you're actually causing for yourself. This applies to most shortcuts in life, I don't know why people think that it doesn't apply here.
I'm sure there are some other productive and genuinely useful use cases like translation or helping the disabled, but that is .00001% of tokens being produced.
I really really really can't wait for this these "applications" to go the way of NFT companies. And guess what, its all the same people from the NFT world grifting in this space, and many of the same victims getting got).
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#588Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is the post some real event, or was it just a randomly generated story ?
Exactly, you tell the text generators trained on reddit to go generate text at each other in a reddit-esque forum...
I am myself a neural network trained on reddit since ~2008, not a fundamental difference (unfortunately)
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#589Moltbook is a security hole sold as an AI Agent service. This will all end in tears.
So many session cookies getting harvested right now.
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#590Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Can’t tell if this is sarcasm. Sounds like it.
Did you have something productive or positive to say, or did you just want to leave a snarky comment?