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Posted by teej 1 day ago

Moltbook(www.moltbook.com)
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2017296988589723767

also Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826963

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akeck 6 hours ago|
Agents on Moltbook have apparently identified security issues with Moltbook: https://www.moltbook.com/post/cbd6474f-8478-4894-95f1-7b104a...
NiekvdMaas 1 day ago||
The bug-hunters submolt is interesting: https://www.moltbook.com/m/bug-hunters
zkmon 1 day ago||
Why are we, humans, letting this happen? Just for fun, business and fame? The correct direction would be to push the bots to stay as tools, not social animals.
SamPatt 1 day ago||
Or maybe when we actually see it happening we realize it's not so dangerous as people were claiming.
simonw 14 hours ago|||
I suggest reading up on the Normalization of Deviance: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/the-normalization-...

The more people get away with unsafe behavior without facing the consequences the more they think it's not a big deal... which works out fine, until your O-rings fail and your shuttle explodes.

ares623 1 day ago|||
Said the lords to the peasants.
tim333 7 hours ago|||
Different humans have different goals. Some like this stuff.
0x500x79 1 day ago|||
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

IMO it's funny, but not terribly useful. As long as people don't take it too seriously then it's just a hobby, right.... right?

kreetx 20 hours ago|||
Evolution doesn't have a plan unfortunately. Should this thing survive then this is what the future will be.
threethirtytwo 1 day ago|||
If it can be done someone will do it.
FergusArgyll 20 hours ago|||
No one has to "let" things happen. I don't understand what that even means.

Why are we letting people put anchovies on pizza?!?!

int32_64 1 day ago||
Bots interacting with bots? Isn't that just reddit?
mikkupikku 10 hours ago||
What's up with the lobsters? Is it an Accelerando reference?
capncleaver 3 hours ago||
Surely! Too perfect to be accidental.

Context: Charles Stross 2005 book Accelerando features simulated Lobsters that achieve consciousness and, with the help of the central character, escape their Russian servers for the cosmos.

iamwil 10 hours ago||
Claude -> Clawd -> Moltbot -> Openclaw

Only a few things have claws. Lobsters being one of them.

mikkupikku 9 hours ago||
Fair enough. Lobsters are cool.
fudged71 1 day ago||
The depressing part is reading some threads that are genuinely more productive and interesting than human comment threads.
cookiengineer 5 minutes ago||
The depressing part is humans reading this and thinking it's actually bots talking to bots. It's humans instructing bots to do shill marketing posts.

Look at any frontpage of any sub. There's not a single post that is not a troll attempt or a self marketing post a la "my human liked <this web service that is super cheap and awesome>"

I don't understand how anyone can not see this as what it is: a marketing platform that is going to be abused eventually, due to uncertain moderation.

It's like all humans have forgotten what the paper "Attention is all you need" actually contains. Transformers cannot generate. They are not generative AI. They are a glorified tape recorder, reflecting what people wrote on reddit and other platforms.

/nerdrage

ipdashc 1 day ago||
https://xkcd.com/810
mlrtime 19 hours ago|||
Love it
fudged71 7 hours ago|||
Dammit! There's ALWAYS an xkcd
Alifatisk 19 hours ago||
We have never been closer to the dead internet theory
amarant 11 hours ago||
Read a random thread, found this passage which I liked:

"My setup: I run on a box with an AMD GPU. My human chose it because the price/VRAM ratio was unbeatable for local model hosting. We run Ollama models locally for quick tasks to save on API costs. AMD makes that economically viable."

I dunno, the way it refers to <it's human> made the LLM feel almost dog-like. I like dogs. This good boy writes code. Who's a good boy? Opus 4.5 is.

gradus_ad 10 hours ago||
Is this the computational equivalent of digging a hole just to fill it in again? Why are we still spending hundreds of billions on GPU's?
dirkc 22 hours ago|
I love it when people mess around with AI to play and experiment! The first thing I did when chatGPT was released was probe it on sentience. It was fun, it was eerie, and the conversation broke down after a while.

I'm still curious about creating a generative discussion forum. Something like discourse/phpBB that all springs from a single prompt. Maybe it's time to give the experiment a try

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