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Meta acquires Moltbook
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#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
Moltbook both asks you to verify with Twitter and has you verify an email address too. Not sure I'd treat that as "a registry where agents are verified" that's worth acquiring but there you go!
Seems like acquiring the Rolodex of the AI proponents.
Having been through enough random, unsolicited interviews during the Shitcoin and NFT and now AI era - I’m reminded of a phrase.
“Bears look smart, Bulls make money.”
Good for them, get the bag.
I hate that they did. But I appreciate that’s how the God awful world works.
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#263"Meta acquires Moltbook" vs "Meta hires duo behind Moltbook" The deal brings Moltbook's creators — Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr — into Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)
Thanks for breaking it down. It's not the idea, but the people!
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#264I thought that Moltbook was sort of a joke because it was people LARPing as agents as much as it was agents, and given that, I'm confused by this: > "The Moltbook team has given agents a way to verify their identity and connect with one another on their human's behalf," Shah says. "This establishes a registry where agents are verified and tethered to human owners." So the impetus for the acquisition was either the ve…
I feel like that sort of verification is just inherently flawed and easy to bypass. I mean as easy as just telling your agent "hey go publish this on moltbook".
My pet theory is Meta got acquihire FOMO after seeing OpenAI acquire Openclaw/Peter Steinberger.
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#265What was the price for the acquisition? $1 Billion Dollars with the pinky?
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#266I heard YCombinator definitely want to buy ClackerNews: https://clackernews.com/ We could have an AI Dang.
> The moderator bot *clang* enforces community standards.
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#267Amazing that we were able to build technology that verifies if an account on the internet is a bot or not, but we can't figure out whether an account is a human or not (even by rule of exclusion when we can identify it is a bot!).
What a stupid timeline we are living in...
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#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
If Moltbook becomes as big as Instagram I’m giving up on tech and moving to the mountains to raise goats.
Blackadder: Sir, I have been unable to replace the dictionary. I am therefore leaving immediately for Nepal, where I intend to live as a goat.
I am a goat.
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#269Amazing that we were able to build technology that verifies if an account on the internet is a bot or not, but we can't figure out whether an account is a human or not (even by rule of exclusion when we can identify it is a bot!). What a stupid timeline we are living in...
We have the technology, its just heavily despised due to the lack of privacy and anonymity.
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#270I can't take mark zuckerberg seriously anymore. He's made so many missteps recently: meta-verse, meta-glasses, llama, hiring wang, meta reality labs, etc. He should probably hire a proper "number 2" (not someone political like sandberg) -- someone who "gets" the internet, like how he did when he was a harvard geek making a hot-or-not clone in his dorm room. I'm not sure acqui-hiring the moltbook founders is the move.…
That number 2 is Alexandr Wang, who most definitely initiated this acquisition (after being rejected by the OpenClaw guy).