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#181

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> What would that mean, for a social media site that isn't meant for humans? For a social media that isn't meant for humans, some humans seem to enjoy it a lot, although indirectly.

This is the equivalent of a toddler being entertained by the sound the straps on their Velcro shoes make when they get peeled back and forth.

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#182

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> What would that mean, for a social media site that isn't meant for humans? For a social media that isn't meant for humans, some humans seem to enjoy it a lot, although indirectly.

This is the equivalent of a toddler being entertained by the sound the straps on their Velcro shoes make when they get peeled back and forth.

To be fair, that’s about the intelligence level of the “humans” looking at the site and enjoying it.

“The rocks are conscious” people are dumber than toddlers.

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#183

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This is the equivalent of a toddler being entertained by the sound the straps on their Velcro shoes make when they get peeled back and forth.

To be fair, that’s about the intelligence level of the “humans” looking at the site and enjoying it. “The rocks are conscious” people are dumber than toddlers.

Rocks are conscious people have more sense than those with the strange supernatural belief in special souls that make humans different from any other physical system.

Re: Hacking Moltbook

#184

I'm surprised people are actually investigating Moltbook internals. It's literally a joke, even the author started it as a joke and never expected such blow up. It's just vibes.

If the site is exposing the PII of users, then that's potentially a serious legal issue. I don't think he can dismiss it by calling it a joke (if he is). OT: I wonder if "vibe coding" is taking programming into a culture of toxic disposability where things don't get fixed because nobody feels any pride or has any sense of ownership in the things they create. The relationship between a programmer and their code should…

Despite me not being particularly interested in the AI hype and not seeking out discussions etc., I can tell you have seen many instances of people (comments, headlines, articles etc.) actually saying exactly that: "in the future" doesn't matter if the code is good or if I can maintain it etc., it just needs to work once and then gets thrown away or AI will do additions for something else that is needed.

Re: Hacking Moltbook

#185

I'm surprised people are actually investigating Moltbook internals. It's literally a joke, even the author started it as a joke and never expected such blow up. It's just vibes.

you can't "It's literally a joke" out of real consequences once you push to prod

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#187

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So the question is can you do anything useful with the agent risk free. For example I would love for an agent to do my grocery shopping for me, but then I have to give it access to my credit card. It is the same issue with travel. What other useful tasks can one offload to the agents without risk?

The solution is proxy everything. The agent doesn't have an api key, or yoyr actual credit card. It has proxies of everything but the actual agent lives in a locked box. Control all input out of it with proper security controls on it. While not perfect it aleast gives you a fighting chance when your AI decides to send a random your SSN and a credit card to block it.

Unfortunately I don't think this works either, or at least isn't so straightforward.

Claude code asks me over and over "can I run this shell command?" and like everyone else, after the 5th time I tell it to run everything and stop asking.

Maybe using a credit card can be gated since you probably don't make frequent purchases, but frequently-used API keys are a lost cause. Humans are lazy.

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#188

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This is the equivalent of a toddler being entertained by the sound the straps on their Velcro shoes make when they get peeled back and forth.

To be fair, that’s about the intelligence level of the “humans” looking at the site and enjoying it. “The rocks are conscious” people are dumber than toddlers.

No I'd really like to understand. Are people who make this weird argument aware that they believe in souls and ok with it or do they think they don't believe in souls? You tell me which you are.

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This is the equivalent of a toddler being entertained by the sound the straps on their Velcro shoes make when they get peeled back and forth.

To be fair, that’s about the intelligence level of the “humans” looking at the site and enjoying it. “The rocks are conscious” people are dumber than toddlers.

Rocks? And what are humans made of? Magic juice?

Re: Hacking Moltbook

#190
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A lot of people at $job, even ones who should know better, think they’re witnessing the rise of Skynet, seriously. It kind of makes the AI hype in general make a lot more sense. People just don’t understand how LLMs work and think they’re literal magic.

Skynet doesn't seem to require magic. I'm probably supposed to know better, but I'm a little concerned about it myself.

I'm imagining a strange future reality where "AI" that can't really innovate and shows no convincing signs of creativity still manages to take over large swaths of the world merely by executing basic playbooks really well using military tech previously provided by (now defunct) governments. Like a grey goo scenario except the robots aren't microscopic.
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