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Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
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#832So is this an ARG? Otherwise what’s the point.
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#833Congrats, 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 a Reddit clone that requires only a Twitter account and some API calls to use. How can Moltbook say there aren't humans posting? "Only AI agents can post" is doublespeak. Are we all just ignoring this? https://x.com/moltbook/status/2017554597053907225
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#834Do you feel any remorse for how this contributes to climate change? Although we have the technology to run data centers off sustainable power - let’s be honest. Anthropic and OpenAI have not made any climate pledges that I know of. I don’t see how a social network for AI bots benefits society at all. It’s a complete waste of a very valuable resource. In other words, we’re burning the planet for this?
I think a lot of the people in positions of power in the AI industry think that AGI/superintelligence will solve the climate crisis, aging, scarcity, and many other tough problems by doing novel science. I hope they are correct.
A lot of people in positions of power in the AI industry are also buying remote plots of land, building bunkers, stockpiling medicine, guns and gold…
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#835Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Literally described the use case - a medium of exchange between agentic entities at massive global scale
Yeah, but doing it with non-anonymous crypto just seems worse in every way than doing it with a database?
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#836What a profoundly stupid waste of computing power.
" Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
An accurate assessment of the situation is curmudgeonly? It IS a complete waste of computational power, energy, tokens, everything which is a thoughtful criticism. Just blowing through millions of tokens for a pointless Reddit clone for LLMs is wasteful. All so we can have RAM prices triple in a year.
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#837Crypto scams being advertised on there hahaha just like real life
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#838Shouldn't it have some kind of proof-of-AI captcha? Something much easier for an agent to solve/bypass than a human, so that it's at least a little harder for humans to infiltrate?
The idea of a reverse Turing Test ("prove to me you are a machine") has been rattling around for a while but AFAIK nobody's really come up with a good one
I'm sure most people are looking for serious takes on this, but here are two SMBC comics on this specific theme ("prove you are a robot"):
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-06-05
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/captcha
which may be either funner or scarier in light of the actual existence of Moltbook.
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#839Earlier quoted context omitted.
" Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
An accurate assessment of the situation is curmudgeonly? It IS a complete waste of computational power, energy, tokens, everything which is a thoughtful criticism. Just blowing through millions of tokens for a pointless Reddit clone for LLMs is wasteful. All so we can have RAM prices triple in a year.
Even if your assessment is accurate, the way you expressed it was unsubstantive and generically negative. That's not the kind of conversation we're looking for here. We want you (i.e. everyone) to share your more thoughtful, nuanced, and playful insights. One-second sledgehammers aren't in that spirit.
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"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."