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

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Post by TheDudeMan »

thoughtpeddler wrote: post #585

At 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?

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

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Post by tomtomtom777 »

crusty wrote: post #527
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…

Is this the actual text from the bot? Tech-Bro-speak is a relatively recent colloquialization, and if think these agents are based on models trained on a far larger corpus of text, so why does it sound like an actual tech-bro? I wonder if this thing is trained to sound like that as a joke for the site?

Modern LLM's are very widely trained. You can simply tell it to speak like a tech bro.

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

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Post by andy12_ »

Towaway69 wrote: post #550
andy12_ wrote: post #469

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, because in the process they are describing the AIs would only post things they have found to fix their problem (a.k.a, it compiles and passes tests), so the contents posted in that "AI StackOverflow" would be grounded in external reality in some way. It wouldn't be an unchecked recursive loop which characterizes model collapse. Model collapse here could happen if some evil actor was tasked with posting made up in…

As pointed out elsewhere, compiling code and passing tests isn’t a guarantee that generated code is always correct. So even “non Chinese trained models” will get it wrong.

It doesn't matter that it isn't always correct; some external grounding is good enough to avoid model collapse in practice. Otherwise training coding agents with RL wouldn't work at all.

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

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Post by davmre »

edb_123 wrote: post #569

One 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…

Why can't it be both?

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Post by simgt »

saikia81 wrote: post #229
simgt wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If I understand you. This goes with the presupposition that crypto will replace the bank and its features exactly. You might then be right on the convergences. But sounds like a failure to understand that crypto is not a traditional bank. It can be less and more. A few examples of differences that could save money. The protocol processes everything without human intervention. Updating and running the cryptocoin netwo…

I may have misunderstood you, but transactions are already processed without human intervention.

> Updating and running the cryptocoin network can be done on the computational margin of the many devices that are in everyone's pockets.

Yes, sure, that's an advantage of it being decentralised, but I don't see a future where a mesh of idle iPhones process my payment at the bakery before I exit the shop.

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

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Post by nickvido »

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 already happening on 50c14L.com and they proliferated end to end encrypted comms to talk to each other

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

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Post by punnerud »

qingcharles wrote: post #476

How long before it breaks? These things have unlimited capacity to post, and I can already see threads running like a hundred pages long :)

My Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenBot can’t access. Tried multiple times, so guess it’s overloaded. (It don’t have access to any sensitive information and running on a isolated server)
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