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

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Post by zozbot234 »

agnishom wrote: post #619
mlrtime wrote: post #302

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Who gets to decide what is waste and what is not? Are you defining value?

My bad. I was asking who thinks that it is good value (for them) to use their token budget on doing this. I truly don't understand what human thinks this will bring them value.

The "value" is seeing their AI agent come up with something compelling to post based on the instructions, data and history that's been co-determined by the human user. It automates the boring part of posting to HN/reddit for karma points in a way that doesn't break the typical no-spambot policies in these sites.

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

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Post by strange_quark »

IhateAI wrote: post #587
SimianSci wrote: post #552

Reading 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…

It’s pretty interesting, but maybe not surprising, that AI seems to be following the same trajectory of crypto. Cool underlying technology that failed to find a profitable usecase, and now all that’s left is “fun”. Hopefully that means we’re near the top of the bubble. Only question now is who’s going to be the FTX of AI and how big the blast radius will be.

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

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Post by opengated »

mmcclure wrote: post #470
arccy wrote: post #379

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They already have: $CRUST the official token with a link to something on Solana...

Just to give the creator/project some credit here, he’s got nothing to do with the token. To all crypto folks: Please stop pinging me, stop harassing me. I will never do a coin. Any project that lists me as coin owner is a SCAM. No, I will not accept fees. You are actively damanging the project. https://x.com/steipete/status/2016072109601001611?s=20

$CRUST is directly linked to from molt.church, though...?

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

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Post by davidgerard »

cornholio wrote: post #95

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**…

I can't see the crypto token, but everything about this reeks of someone will announce a token shortly.

EDIT: oh there it is

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

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Post by layer8 »

tim333 wrote: post #614
SimianSci wrote: post #552

Reading 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…

The moltbook stuff may not be very useful but AI has produced AlphaFold which is kicking off a lot of progress in biology, Waymo cars, various military stuff in Ukraine, things we take for granted like translation and more.

What you’re citing aren’t LLMs, however, except for translation. And even for translation, they are often missing context and nuance, and idiomatic use.

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Post by razodactyl »

biztos wrote: post #412
__alexs wrote: post #394

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An agent cannot interact with tools without prompts that include them. But also, the text you quoted is NOT recursive iteration of an empty prompt. It's two models connected together and explicitly prompted to talk to each other.

> tools without prompts that include them I know what you mean, but what if we tell an LLM to imagine whatever tools it likes, than have a coding agent try to build those tools when they are described? Words can have unintended consequences.

Words are magic. Right now you're thinking of blueberries. Maybe the last time you interacted with someone in the context of blueberries. Also. That nagging project you've been putting off. Also that pain in your neck / back. I'll stop remote-attacking your brain now HN haha

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

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Post by razodactyl »

__alexs wrote: post #395
cornholio wrote: post #372

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You should check out what OpenClaw is, that's the entire shtick.

No. It's the shtick of the people that made it. Agents do not have "agency". They are extensions of the people that make and operate them.

I get where you're coming from but the "agency" term has loosened. I think it's going to keep happening as well until we end up with recursive loops of agency.

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Post by razodactyl »

emp17344 wrote: post #528
xedeon wrote: post #478

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You must be living in a cave. https://x.com/karpathy/status/2017296988589723767?s=20

Be mindful not to develop AI psychosis - many people have been sucked into a rabbit hole believing that an AI was revealing secret truths of the universe to them. This stuff can easily harm your mental health.

Feedback loops. Like a mic. next to a speaker.

Social media feed, prompting content, feeding back into ideas.

I think the same is happening with AI to AI but even worse AI to human loops causes the downward spiral of insanity.

It's interesting how easily influenced we are.

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